Old bump, and just my two cents.
Starfield isn't bad, it's just hugely over-hyped. Got it through GamePass, and spend 4-5 hours in it, and I'm certainly glad I didn't spend money on it.
To me, it's a bit like No Mans Sky. There's all these things that you can do, and all these customizations to your ship and crew that are available.
But once you get past the 'Oooh, shiny!' stage, there's a distinct lack of actual content.
Go there, kill the bad guy, go back and get your next mission.
And par for the course for modern games, there's a metric crap-ton of side-missions that you can do.
They don't actually mean anything, they're just there because developers are so scared of people being bored.
We saw it in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Far Cry 5.
God forbid that the player actually has 30 seconds without somebody offering a side-quest. or a bounty-hunter dropping in to feed the adrenaline.
Personal rating for Starfield is.....meh.
Not a bad game by any means, but the hype-train has long since left the station.
BG3 is much better, although I have my own pet peeves with that one.