To be fair, No Man's Sky is a much better game today than it was around launch, when it was getting peak bad press. At that point, the prudent move might have

To be fair, No Man's Sky is a much better game today than it was around launch, when it was getting peak bad press. At that point, the prudent move might have been to cut their losses and move on to other projects. But instead Hello Games has spent the last couple years releasing free updates.