The lack of exploration has caused my friends group online to all switch to playing No Man's Sky lol. They are new, I've played it off and on for years and very much enjoying the new content.
For now Starfield remains uninstalled. I'll reinstall when the 'special edition' comes out next year, and there's a great community patch, a compellation mod that makes the UI not suck, and a bunch of content mods that make the game what it should have been from the start.