People are always love to point out how determined Hello Games to polish their game, but imo it's not enough to be a good devs. I played around 60 hours of NMS and I couldn't recommend it to any of my friends, because there are a lot of things that are bad in essence and easy to fix. Right of the bat I will point my finger to ships "buying" mechanic. Or UI (I guess because of consoles, but God damn), especially map.
Considering my personal experience my expectations are pretty low (on same level as my faith that my grandchildren will see OCO in their lifetime).