Tbh I feel like things StarCitizen was promising: explorable galaxy with detailed ships and space to space combat with social components and some kind of economy, games like Elite Dangerous and Eve delivered years ago.

For anything beyond it's highly unlikely they ever will deliver. The scope and pace of delevopment is just too large to come close to any kind of completion those games have even in 10 or 20 years. Anyone sane enough to see this has moved on to actual, real games either MP ones like the ones mentioned or singleplayer ones that fulfill the fantasy of being a trader in space like No Man's Sky or X4 foundations. So now all that's left is the believers.

As long as it's a pipe dream the game can be anything to anyone. It doesn't need to have functioning combat, physics or even run on most hardeware. All in-game problems will eventually be fixed just a little further down the road and SC can be exactly all the things you dreamed of! You're invested since 2012 so what do you have to worry about, it's come such a long way since then!

Especially since like with small indie games or competitve games at the highest level you can interact with people in the community: other financially or emotionally invested people just like yourself and you can meme fringe opinions about what changes they should make to the game into existence. Especially since the community of actual players is quite small...

I personally don't think SC will ever be close to any kind of finished product. They will probably be releasing new ships for people to buy for as long as someone will pay for them and they legally can but there will be no finished game. Not in 10 years nor 20.

To finish the game would be to kill all the individual hopes and dreams of every SC backer, anyone emotionally invested enough to make or watch content of the game, anyone who bought in when it was on kickstarter.

I bought the starter ship an age ago. I will probably have to pass my account on in my will before it can be used.