The best things about the game (and it is a good game at this point, they continued to add to it at a steady pace since launch) are the human written stories.

But, once you've exhausted those human stories, it's like wandering around a few billion abandoned malls. Interesting the first few times, but grows boring pretty fast. But also, the worst thing about the human-written stories is that they're often transparently designed around getting you to visit more abandoned malls. The procgen infinity of space is almost a negative, even though it's the game's whole schtick.

I guess now that I think of it like that, it's really impressive they made a fun game despite having to make it fit a boring repetitive universe.