Trouble is, the planet types weren't varied enough for pure exploration. I remember one time I got excited closing in on a planet because from space it looked like it had fluorescent pink rivers, and I thought "wow this looks new!", but it turned out it was just a pinkish tinge to the rocks at ground level that wasn't rendering well from high up. The buildings are all more or less the same and on absolutely every planet so there's no novelty to finding them. Wildlife is pretty similar everywhere.
Though if you meant that they should've dropped the additional stuff and focused on adding (a lot of) depth to the core exploration game, even if it took longer to come out, I'd agree. If the idea is that every planet is your own discovery, you should also be able to get creative about what you can do with/on them.
Really does look like the game we seen in the E3 trailers back in 2015 or whatnot. You really have to give credit to such a small indie team for sticking with it through all of that scrutiny, and those that understandably haven’t been paying as much attention must realize that this is the biggest update in a series of updates since release. It’s been slowly but surely getting better and better, but this update is a complete overall it seems.
