Cosmic Exploration progression is poorly handled

[Ardeth]

And that is absolutely fine. In fact, I'm doing exactly the same - I will farm (not the best word, but I don't have better) currency to get what I want. Like with fates. Like with other content gated by any currency.
And while doing all that, I'll help progress little story of rabbits going to space (pity not the pigs, but oh well). And we'll see when we get to go when we build our starship.

And I bet it's the same for most of players.

Getting up in arms and upset about it - just why?

I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed in it. It could've been so much better.

[Regis_Paran]

I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed in it. It could've been so much better.

That's why I'm trying to avoid having preconceptions about new content. Otherwise it will inevitably leads to disappointment. And yes, everyting would be so much better if we could craft our, private game and have every piece of content exactly as we like. No argument there.

Imo this whole "issue" was completely blown out of propprtions. There are bigger ones - like why some Fisher missions are timed, when getting the actual fish it totally rng. That's the actual shitty design.