Watched the Starfield gameplay, when Todd Howard pulled out his space laser to mine iron ore it was like my soul left my body and i watched the rest of the trailer in a dissociative state.
I like Minecraft. It's a good time. I also really like Satisfactory. But every single other game that has resource mining would be better off without it. It's like hacking and lockpicking minigames, the only thing it can possibly offer to the player is a minute of annoyance - but with mining it's often hours of annoyance.
Yes, but procedural generation is a challenging thing to implement in itself! Great deals of time and effort must be put into such things to get a semblance of functionality. Comparatively, short linear games are the easier option. I would know. Take a look at the outputs from many game jams and you'll get what I mean.