Maybe it's a cycle thing, a lot of devs coming up and making projects might've first played games like Elite or Star Wars games, watched TV like star trek TNG and DS9, movies like Star Wars (prequels too). So that's what they want to make, and then Kerbal and Elite: Dangerous came around and demonstrated a substantial market segment that wants to play space games after space games kinda disappeared in the 00s and early 10s.
Maybe it's a cycle thing, a lot of devs coming up and making projects might've first played games like Elite or Star Wars games, watched TV like star trek TNG and DS9, movies like Star Wars (prequels too). So that's what they want to make, and then Kerbal and Elite: Dangerous came around and demonstrated a substantial market segment that wants to play space games after space games kinda disappeared in the 00s and early 10s.