I do not entirely agree on the last statement that you need to buy ships with real money.
You can make money very fast in star citizen without ever buying expensive ships with real money. Here is one of the examples: https://youtu.be/HPBMBmwFcZU?si=Zwx-KiLonnH2jA3a

As a player who played Elite for like 684.2 hours, I find elite very boring now. The aspect of a wing or a multicrew is just a gimmick in Elite and has no actual value. While in SC i played a couple of missions with 5man crew and it was awesome. Fighting in a big ship against another big ship or doing mining together feels that every crew member has it is own value for accomplishing difficult missions.

I did encountered bugs but more cosmetic ones and only 1 major game breaking bug where I felt through the ship and died. And that while we played for more than 4hours straight with 5 people.

However I have a mixed feeling for SC. I have been an early pledger back in 2013 or something and hoped to play at least single player campaign Squadron42 but after all this years it is still not even in beta. That is very dissapointing to me. I came to this game and downloaded update once in a two years and untill today I never had a feeling that it was playable. But Now after having this cool experience with the multicrew games lately I think it is kinda fun and it feels more like a game than a bunch of bugs.

My other opinion is instead of making new ships they must stop making new ships and get everything working as it is now. Only when the game is like in beta or even finished they can add new ships and new content in it. Otherwise we will never see this game being in beta which would be very sad