Thinder
The difference are place and sectors where people haven't been before. How many players have visited the galaxy center? Did you?
I find new star systems never visited before, every day. I wasted travelling 20K ly just to confirm it's all the same.
So, there is ZERO point in wasting 5 billion+ funny-money to travel XX0+K ly to find out... oh dren, it's still all the same.
But why should it be any different? There is no reason for this at all! Magic? Really?
Laws of physics are universal (universe, not galaxy!). All the elements created by the stars are the same so the chemistry is also same, bio etc etc.
So, best we can get is something that looks and behaves odd - thanks to gravity or other conditions. (try RL scuba diving, it's amazing down there).
The only, even remotely interesting, entities are either dead and long gone or turned into "The Enemy", by "our" idiotic leadership of sociopaths (do I even need to add "in ED universe"?).
So yeah, it sure feels like I have arrived at the end of this game.
What's even worst is that starting again from 0 will not make it any more interesting. There is no unexpected evolution in any level or direction.