This is like any game ever. There is always a percentage of players who don't seem to play the games they buy regardless of how new the game is.
Mods on PC also disable achievements, so it's possible that a fair few space adventurers are missing the achievement
Probably that, and people just checking it in game pass. About the other achievements, It's funny that in Bethesda games people keep ignoring the main quest so much.
There's not much to do on the beginning asteroid, though. If you want to do any of the side quests without the main quest, or no quests and base build, you still need to leave the starting asteroid via spaceship.
No joke, I played at launch and I look off in a ship the first time, and I got an achievement: "Rare achievement earned: flew in a spaceship. 0.3% of players unlocked this". I thought I had spent too long in character creation but I guess I spent less than most?
There was some issue with the achievements for those of us who played the early launch. I'm playing the Steam version, but it thinks I never went to space or joined Constellation despite me having them for things like quests and killing 300 creatures.
