I intentionally played this game wrong. I didn't touch any story whatsoever. I arrived at the Lodge and left with the intention of doing all the side stories, as that's a favorite part for many and myself. So these are my thoughts on just all side content. I plan on playing this game with mods and a discount later.

Starfield feels like "more Fallout 4" in mostly worse ways. I don't like Fallout 4 because the world, side content, and some mechanics didn't appeal to me. So now we have Starfield where the setting's mostly ok, there's 2 cool faction storylines, and the skilltrees are horribly bloated and redundant.