You can have Legs. or, you can have Ships. You can't do both (and satisfy the player, or maker).Last time I played possibly 7 months back, you couldn't build ships. Ships can be modified but that isn't ship building. I'm thinking more along the lines of SE, EGS etc.
I know NMS isn't a block building game, but they're close enough with planet side building, just need them to apply that to the ship side.
Other than that, they have always had a good game, I played from day 1 and enjoyed a huge amount of hours in the game. But for some reason it holds me and others on update releases nowadays, but then it slips away for some reason.
Mainly I think, as other games have found out, players want their ships to be the focus, it is the thing we use the most in our space games and designing, building, flying, moving around inside and maintaining your own built ship, is the best feeling, for me at least.
So I hope they look towards ships more and they probably will in the future.
It's a world view. From both the makers of games, and the players of games.