The question I ask myself is, why did they create EDO at all, if there is no intend to make something bigger out of it?- At least when they started with the project (3 years ago?) there was most likely still the intend to do atmospheric worlds in ED - especially because they had Jurassic World Evolution released at that time and eventually some of the technology used there could be used in ED as well. i don't know much about that game though, this is just a wild guess.
something might have changed since then - maybe they discovered that it's not so easy to do and had a "what else can we do with it?" moment. That jurassic game had bad reviews as well at launch and even a year later reviewers call it a forgettable experience, too repetitive and inflexible - sounds familiar?- Could well be that they have given up on thier original vision and came up with the "next best" idea - an FPS - an "oh let's attract some youngsters to ED" kind of idea, which of course falls flat on it's belly, if they don't create an environment, where the FPS crowd wants to play in - it's certainly not EDO though. So is that really made for this crowd?- yeah .. nah, don't think so, not really.
This looks to me like total confusion about in which direction the game should be heading in future - i hope, when they will have figured that out, they'll let us know. Meanwhile i'm more likely to try out some of the other space games until FDev will have a captain at the helm of the ship again, who gives it a consistent direction.Or maybe I'm just wrong about it in regards to EDO, and it is a consistent decision -to get a last injection of money before phasing the whole thing out .... within a couple of years.