After playing for a while I'm done.
Beyond any of the controversy what killed it for me is the sameness of everything. There's no reason to seek out any individual location, cause it's all too random and familiar at the same damn time.
There's no reason to explore a dangerous planet as any resource you need can be found on a safe planet. I don't even go in spacestations anymore cause they are all the same shyt.
The universe doesn't seem large cause you can't really fly through it, just warp from each static set of planets to the next, and there's no sense of direction as for where I've been or where I'm heading, so none of it is memorable, just mindlessly charging up my warp engine and warping to the next set of planets.
I enjoyed being able to take off from one planet fly through space and land on the next, but once that wore off the game is just mind-numbingly stale.