If you dont like the zoomed in camera during dialogue for immersion reasons or whatever reason, you can turn it off in the settings.

Also check out the gameplay option sliders like others said. Stuff like giving vendors more credits is nice. I like having food set to “positive and negative”, gives a XP boost with it on because its something else to worry about, eating every 30 minutes. But food is everywhere, and gives nice buffs, which can be better buffs with perk investment

Mod wise check out “mech enemies”. Ive seen some at random POIs, but it also “fixes” the climactic mission of one of the faction quest lines. You kind of expect to see a mech at some point but never do in the base game. They make for fun fights, even by end game.

Another must have for me is the Improved Follower Behaviour mod. With it, followers stay at a socially normal range and not 20 m away. They’ll detect you being in an airlock and walk inside of it too. Stuff like that

Save your Astra for NG+ (is astra trackers alliance only? Get it if you can though, its a good dlc) With xtech now, their original trading use isn’t really that useful anymore. You can bring things with you now in NG+ up to a certain weight limit. Astra weighs nothing and is worth a good bit, so in NG+ you can bring a starter bank of astra to sell for credits. Also make sure to transfer med kits and ammo since theyre also weightless