Whiny nerds who haven’t read a new book in over two decades shed tears over the fact their boring-ass game sucks and is getting swirlied in the toilet bowl by actual cool games
I think it’s more that the transitions are jarring. If they’d made jumps and inter planetary transitions first person cutscene loads like a lot of space games like freelancer, there’d be less complaining. And occasionally they are that and they decided not to make it the only way.
Anyway script extender is now out, so open cities and better transitions are likely a monthbor two away.