I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
I vaguely recall Hello Games saying that ~100 players are still playing on version 1.0, probably back on a reddit thread. You’re not alone in preferring the launch version, though I didn’t get to experience it.