Verisimilitude is a real thing. And Starfield does a very poor job of it. It's biggest sin so far to me is trying to sell it too hard. Spelling out that oh yeah all these outposts were set up during the Colony War and then just abandoned... for some reason... and now all these designated bandit factions are taking them over... because I guess there are literally more spacers than the population of either actual country... just draws attention to it and screams yes this is a thing that is actually happening, it is not just a matter of scale or protagonist syndrome sending you to just the interesting places and none of the boring ones. It makes it worse than you if you just didn't point it out. Or like how every other guard is like man those spacers sure are worse than the literal pirates, so don't feel bad about just slaughtering them by the dozens.