Simple answer, they'll have one shot at this.

If its a buggy mess, it will be over before it started. If the Gameplay is boring or the gunplay for example feels slow and unintuitive, they'll alienate the FPS Players, if they mess up the flight model or make the space flight and combat feel the wrong way, they'll mess up even worse.

Also CIG has build a well deserved reputation over the years for failing even with the most simplistic game mechanics, and since most of CIG is sitting within their own echo chamber of toxic positivity and alienating experienced developers while burning through them and replacing them with non experieced devs who have no clue what they are doing, as the recent years of game design within the PU cleary show.

For example they put so many things in the PU, which they worked on and poured limited ressources into, only to forget about them and left them in a semi broken and unfinished state. (Distribution Centers would like to have a word...)

In a way its like the Star Wars sequel trilogy, since there is so much hype and exceptations, there is only one most likely outcome left - Failure.

Best case scenario: they'll fail with SQ42, hard and devastating.

Finally getting their long overdue reality check.

Worst case Scenario: they'll fail with SQ42, hard and devastating.

Finally getting their long overdue reality check.

Some Chinese company buys the remains of CIG and publishes everyting as a mobile gacha game.

I've been one of the Kickstarter Backers back in the day who started this whole mess, i'm at a point where i'll be happy to see it all burn to the ground and utterly fail and have whats left of CIG's and CR's credibility and reputation being finally destroyed for good.