I have about 70 hours in the game and haven’t touched the main quest besides the first few. There’s so many quest lines and side content that if I never did the main quest I’d be satisfied with my purchase.

You don’t even have to do the main story, you can literally fuck off after Barret gives you his ship.

You don’t need to be the chosen one, just a fucker who started hallucinating after touching a weird metal that they now keep in storage as a memento trinket.