The first 8 hours are interesting and full of wonder.. after that it's basically 100 hours of the same thing.
There's plenty to do:
- Increase your inventory slots
- Increase your multitool slots
- Increase your ship's slots
- Upgrade everything (with recipes you find)
- Warp to new systems
- Explore planets and see weird creatures
- Learn alien languages to improve your ability to answer dialog challenges and trades
But all the content maxes out very, very quickly.
Soon every upgrade recipe you find will be a duplicate. Every planet has the same resources. Ship upgrades cost an insane amount of units (max ship upgrade at 48 slots with decent upgrades could cost as much as 180,000,000 units)
Trading is meticulous.
You find the variety dies out and all you're doing is grinding.