Elite had me bored, and now this new update seems overwhelming. I feel like playing Elite and iRacing is comparable to having two girlfriends, when I really only have time for one. Neither of them are something that you can just hop into. You have to level up and maintain, and I am not going to make satisfactory progress in either playing just one night per week.
For me, the time required to make in-game purchases are too high. I know I absolutely feed the p2p epidemic, because if I could just buy the ship(s) and upgrades with real $$$ to jump in and mess around with you guys, I totally would. It is a game I enjoy! But I am also aware of how that would wreck the community as a whole and I wouldn't want the game to change, so the bottom line is that I don't think this is just not the game for me, and for that reason I'm going to have to break up with ED... lol