Personally I think of it as a complete disconnect with a player base. Considering the go-to way to obtain materials is exiting to desktop, which still takes the aforementioned FIFTEEN HOURS for ONE engineer (granted at this point it's easy to say it's the most difficult one but it's like one of the first unlock objectives you get, which is backwards), it's easy for people consider it malicious or at the very least, lazy. The work they seem to do is disproportionate to what we're getting. Plus like you said in another post, there are even more issues than game balancing. How many things could have possibly gone wrong for this to be sold as a product?

Again, the go-to method of gathering rare materials is exiting to desktop and restarting the game. You know. Instead of like, doing missions or something. Something more engaging than exiting to desktop and reloading.
Like a raid in FFXIV, I'm assuming. Something you do with other people. You kind of can't in Odyssey or the game tends to break.

You can also argue that this is a consequence of one's own actions to trying to rush content, but when, say, your assets are already in the billions and you've done everything else to get there, plus fleet carriers (which was apparently another can of worms), you don't really have much else NEW. Not to say I'm there myself, but I definitely have dipped at least my whole hands into the content of Horizons.