I'm super glad that I didn't hear about this until every one started getting mad about how much it sucked.
I vaguely remembered getting hyped up over a space game when I heard about how NMS was a failure, but I later remembered that I was thinking about Star Citizen.
NMS is a failure because it's a grindfest, and I watched a video of the failure of an ending and it's a cutscene of your spaceship traveling to another galaxy and crash landing on a planet that looks like any other with all your equipment destroyed so you get to grind again.