To be honest, my ADHD brain can't comprehend the 6 paragraph you made because I'm not in the mood for reading :I. But to be honest I don't have a lot of beef with Story Mode, I even found it fun and challenging. Finding time more valuable, keeping sure my TRs and servers are keeping up, and avoiding foes at night while I get those Hashcodes. While also encountering events makes me feel like there's more than just scary signals
I like ambience cause you can just sit back, smoking cr@ck, putting lots of pride flags in front of your base, watching J from Murder drone flirting you on your custom plasma TV, asking your Omega Kerfur to have S€x, while you ramble about the economy being shit as you found out the printer cost $1500
I love it