If you need a little more hope, I keep stumbling into cool and unique handcrafted locations and encounters all over the place, just doing side stuff, like, I just delivered two passengers and in doing so found two unique locations in the target star system. I originally feared it was mostly the three major cities getting the handcrafted stuff, but nope, there's a ton of it out there.

Yes, there's a lot of loading screens, but, honestly, I hardly even realize they're there because they are legitimately just like 2 seconds on PC.