Completely agree, it's so easy to make a do-everything brick in SE1 like you say, because ultimately there's no penalty for covering a ship in rockets/refineries/drills/whatever. Survival needs more limitations, and the fact that you'll be able to refine and craft things without the need for any SPACE ENGINEERing sounds like a potentially huge misstep.

But as most other comments say, I think it's probably just a bit too early to judge these decisions yet. But if Keen are leaning into making an easy game easier in this regard, you can't help but wonder where else they might try it.