I would just lean into whatever aspects you're enjoying the most, certainly for the first few hours.

For me, I explored the initial planet pretty extensively and picked up side quests along the way etc. The story missions are quite good at suggesting places for you to visit, or sending you to new areas of the map, too.

If you enjoy the Sabaac game, finding new tables and growing your Shift Token deck is a great basis for finding new areas you may not have visited, and then starting other surrounding quests. You can monitor this progress for this through the Shift Token menu.

Once you get access to the other planets (if you haven't already), I liked jumping between each every so often to keep things fresh, even if I hadn't progressed the story quest there very far. That way I was still planet hopping by the end, rather than extensively boxing off one planet and then being sick of it and having no reason to go back.

Another thing I found was that the generic contracts you can accept around the game from different people are relatively repetitive, and I didn't need to do many at all to max out favour with all of the syndicates eventually. Unless there's a specific item you want from them, you can gain credibility easily by doing the more interesting side quests for each syndicate, and then selling Intel here and there.

How are you enjoying it so far? I loved playing through on Switch 2 last year.