Oh and please don't tell me FD can do everything, I'll believe it when I see it.
Well that's the thing isn't it. We see FD delivering what they said they would on a regular basis, and to a high standard. They said planet surfaces would be a post-launch expansion, and they've stuck to that. Instead of posting meaningless mockups of what something that isn't done yet to pad sales, they have stayed focused on building a real game one piece at a time. Instead of spending most time talking about what they will do, they have opened the game to the highest level of scrutiny by letting us actually play it. So when we see it in Elite, we can believe it.
Clearly FD can't do everything. But they can produce a stunning procedurally generated universe.