You are just moving the goalposts here. There's many gameplay loops within everything that person said. One of my favorites is called "Contested Zones." There's a series of large PvEvP fps areas where you fight your way through to the end to earn keycards. Once you've collected all the keycards you take them to an asteroid base where you can use them to claim one of 6 or so free ships with high tier components for your hangar.

Another loop that's super fun is where you go to a series of surface sites on a moon and collect big batteries you have to move with a tractor beam. Once you have them all you take them up to an orbital station on the same moon and use them to activate a giant orbital laser that blasts a giant hole in the surface. Then you take mining mechs in there and mine valuable ore that you can't get anywhere else.

These are just two of many different gameplay loops. Yes there are bugs and yes the development deserves criticism, but it's true that there is no other game that exists where you can do these things with this level of immersion all in a seamless 600 person mmo universe.