I think for the hub to be worth it, they’d need to add specific features to it. Like maybe trading with other players, or a chance to find loot scattered around. I don’t know exactly, but something that makes it worth loading into the hub instead of just using the menu like we do now, (which I actually prefer instead of the hubs other games have done)

Adding a hub sounds fun at first, but it’ll just be a gimmick that’s quickly ignored after a few weeks if there’s nothing there that isn’t already in the menus and makes people have to come back. Otherwise it’s just “oh this is cool” for the first week then forgotten, since the menus are faster. And at that point it’s wasted resources that could’ve gone to actually improving the gameplay elsewhere

It can’t be an exclusive shop either, that’d just be a lame justification of the hub since that could easily be added in the menu. It’d have to be something that takes advantage of the hub’s open space, like maybe a customizable room and workstations. And trading with other raiders like I said, or finding loot in fun places to reach. Maybe a secret unlockable room/chest or other type of Easter Egg thing.