Personally I'd classify Starfield as solidly mediocre. Not anywhere near the revolution that Bethesda promised, but not awful as some people say either.

5/6 out of 10 is still good enough to play, just not worth AAA prices.

I prefer launch no man sky to what it is now. Sometimes you don’t need a hundred features and multiplayer in a game. Sometimes you just want to calmly explore the universe and feel alone for a bit. Not have a million things to do and pop ups . I have enough of that in my life and other games

Speaking of No Man's Sky, I got it for VR and never played it flatscreen, but I have over 100 hours in it even though the VR mode is ridiculously terrible and mods go only so far to fix some of the annoyances.