That almost sounds like you don't want more content. It seems that a lot of people think the game is still pretty bare bones and needs more content:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2pom92/elite_dangerous_worth_the_buy/
I do want more content and there will be more content. But I rather have few really nice fleshed out parts than from everything a bit but nothing properly.
Just trading is already highly complex when you take reputation, market streams and commodity influence on system factions into account. It ain't just trucking X from A to B...
Same for everything else really. It just depends on how deep you're willing to get into it. Like crpg, you can buy a crossbow and 1h and pew pew with some melee or you do full melee, learn all the tricks, the wiggly stuff and what not.
Right now I have a really demanding flight model, there will be 30 ships with different purpose/balancing/faction related and they all have like 20 different modules for their slots, I have the whole Milky Way to play in, a believable market model (when patched properly
), several big and hundreds of minor faction affecting everything I do to a degree, galaxy driven story missions, missions overall, several occupations to test out and so on... Why would I even wanna build a mine then?
I got exactly what I expected to get. Beta participation was a good choice for me. When I look at the FD forum, most people complaining are just disappointed that there isn't a quest marker or they can't fly the biggest ship after 10 hours.
FD always communicated that there will be big updates after release and that the initial release is the backbone which they gonna develop on. That's what I got. To complain about it after 3 days post-release is just silly.
I love the game and there is already more content then I can try out. I am fine.
Besides, to my knowledge EVE took like several years to get to the point where it's now with several market crashes and drama. The comparison is pretty silly...
Right now I enjoy the probably smoothest release of a game this complex I've ever witnessed with dem Devs giving out daily fixes and updates.
Why am I even arguing?
Don't wanna be a fanboy!
I love the "barebone" Elite and every update they gonna do is just the icing on the cake for me. Fullstop.