Is planet destruction permanent? Does stuff grow back? Kind of weird to have a huge planet and to have stuff regenerate. I mean who the hell is going to mine an entire planet?
It's the way the generation works. If they had to keep track of who's mined and destroyed what, instead of just deleting it and generating it again when needed, they'd have to store all that data somewhere. It would make the game very prone to data corruption and other anomalies probably. Same reason you can only discard stuff and not drop it
Is gam good
If you're looking to get in a space ship and explore a lifetime's amount of planets because you love the space exploration genre, you'll love this game. If you don't, you'll get bored and find a thousand reasons to complain about it.