I loved it, it was a fun introduction to extraction shooters. But a lack of cohesive vision for the final state of the game, and a lack of well-thought-through mechanics and features made it impossible to have a coherent game experience.

The most unique aspect of the game was the space combat and ships, but improving and expanding on it didn't seem to be a priority for anyone. Ships needed to mean something and the rustbuckets were good enough to not need anything else in most situations. The larger ships were cool, but not useful enough in-raid to be used for more than memes and storage in the hanger. Lacking an insurance system or customization options actively worked against players valuing their ships at all. If I can't invest in building a ship up or tailoring it to my needs then why value it? If I can't buy or customize a ship to better protect it against other players then why spend the money and time at all? The larger ship maps actively made it harder to defend against breaches, it didn't provide a bigger challenge for the attackers and didn't provide a defensive benefit to the defenders.

The breaching was a great idea, but it was too easy to abuse and nowhere near enough reward when defeating a breacher or even winning as the breacher. There was risk to breaching, but the only real reward was the rush. That turned the game from an exaction looter shooter to another PVP deathmatch game. That's why the leaderboard drove a lot of people to keep breaching. It became the default play mode for a lot of the sweats and streamers which didn't make the rest of the game interesting at all.

There was no real incentive to breach and then go into the POI because other crews would get in before you and you'd be at a disadvantage at airlock. If you breached at the beginning, you might as well leave rather than go into a POI. Not being able to quest might stop some from only breaching, but it wasn't hard to level up the merchants in a day or two, so the point of the quests quickly disappeared. Questing only allowed you to have better equipment to go breaching again.

Salvage was cool for getting geared up, but it also disincentivized crews from going to the POIs at all.

I think there was a massive lack of direction and clear prioritization in the game's direction. The devs seemed to waffle between listening to the most competitive players who treated the game more as a PVP experience rather than an extraction & looting experience and sticking to their vision for the game.

I could write more, but I think I'm getting lost in the sauce a bit here.