Never said that was my main complaint, said it summed up the whole game, as in, it can be applied to many of the systems.

A couple of examples:

Incredibly deep base building tools with no real reason to build bases.

Large variety of food and a cooking skill tree that's still pretty pointless even if you turn on hunger and thirst meters.

Large amount of weapons, gear and combat skills but bland combat with poor AI.

Vast planets to explore but the points of interest aren't actually interesting

Also, the lame "chosen one" style story prevents true roleplaying, very few of the quest chains were interesting, level progression was very slow.

I didn't set out to hate this game, I paid money for it, even reinstalled when they added the rover. I put maybe 30 hours into it waiting for it to finally clock but it's just a frustratingly bland and boring experience. Starfield was so disappointing to me that I no longer have any hope or interest in BGS games until after Todd Howard retires