The only piece of writing that approaches neutrality on SC that I've seen was the Kotaku UK series months ago.
And yeah. CIG rolling out yet another shiny new tech that is completely ancillary to the actual game they're supposedly trying to make, them not showing off any of their single player content that, just a year ago, they couldn't shut up about because of the high profile actors they hired, them doing a stage demo that was as scripted as it possibly could be and it still didn't run smoothly? Those are not signs of a game undergoing healthy development.
And above all, we've been here before. We've already seen the barely functional demo and the painfully scripted play twice, when they demoed Star Marine (remember that?) or multicrew.
CIG is not well. SC isn't even close to being a minimally viable product yet, over half a decade and over 150 million dollars later.
As a comparison that has to hurt: Bioware is very definitely not well either. When they unveiled Anthem, they even did a painfully scripted demo thing. And yet? Despite all of that? I trust them to deliver a game that is at least competently made and fun to play some time close to their intended release date.
SC was supposed to be the grand epic of crowdfunding. The proof, above all, that big good games do not require EA or other publishers, just a strong vision at the helm and competent people below. For a time, CIG even managed to pull off the look of succeeding at this.
Instead, it has become a laughingstock. Instead, it took Ninja Theory, of all people, to show us what a modern game with a strong vision and without publishers interfering looks like.