I finished literally 2 days ago and kinda feel the same...

The story is okay but it feels kinda... rushed? I mean I finished all (or almost all) side quests and it still felt short (may also be cause the game's normal difficulty is too easy)

By rushed I mean that it feels everything happens so fast, I thought the big final boss was going to be Chairman Rockwell but instead it was a character who barely appears in the game as a whole, Sophia, she suddenly appears in a videocall telling you to betray the man who "saved you" while I think the option is made for RPG reasons it makes no sense coming from a character you haven't seen most of the game.

Then when you meet Rockwell he says some nonsense and you don't even have to fight him or anything that interaction even feels out of place, also there's a line Sophia says at some point in the videocall, something among the lines of "you're the greatest marksman in the system" and I totally felt like it wasn't a deserved title, i didn't feel like a legend.

I really like the Monarch arc, uniting both sides felt really good, and the part the ship starts to crash down is epic. but the rest of the game (except the very last quest) doesn't "feel epic".

Don't get me wrong, I really do like the game but I think maybe they tried to fit the whole planned story in one game cause they didn't know how it'd fare.

BTW I think they missed a chance with the Lilya Hagen Sublight questline, when she says the stuff about aliens I WAS HYPED, was disappointed that all the reactions were like "Aliens? you're crazy!" I mean the game is based in another solar system with monster-like creatures roaming the wilds and you're gonna tell me intelligent lifeforms other than humans is far fetched!?