it's because it's a sandbox farming game, it's not meant to be difficult

you spend most of your time finding/farming resources and unlocking builds

most of your time is traveling between planets/systems/galaxies for different resources

I wouldn't say it's too forgiving on resource grinding, which is the core gameplay, you can easily miss it if you don't play for 40+ hours but there are entire varieties of star systems you can't access initially, an entire race you literally can't see without completing some strings of missions, etc