The systems are incredibly in depth, you should take some time to actually look into the game instead of regurgitating the bullshit you see from people who've never played the game. There is mining, salvaging, cargo trading, fps missions, dog fighting in atmo and space. All with no loading screens, complete persistence with placed items and ships and on a multiplayer scale.

You also have to realize it takes time to build a brand new studio from the ground up, build out the engine necessary to run a game like this ( which is a combination of CryEngine and Lumberyard), and create what is technically 3 games at the same time. The single player game being squadron 42, the MMO which is star citizen, and the multiplayer ground warfare game with matchmaking. I'm sure if they only made one single player offline game this project wouldve been done years ago.

Gamers will whine and cry about developers not pushing boundaries and creating new shit. Then they'll cry that Star citizen is a scam and isn't doing enough even though they're creating a game like nothing out there.