What you said is true as far as I have seen on streams but then again some of the most played games are like that (minecraft, wow, dota, etc). So whether or not you find it fun is up to you. In ED for example tons of people spend months at a time exploring. In ED the only interesting thing you can find are black holes, and exploring means jumping to a system, honking your horn, then jumping to the next one. Some people love it.
I haven't heard of anything happening though.
I'm interested in the same points plus "will multiplayer ever be added"