Same experience for me.

I've dabbled in most things except mining and tourism, mostly exploring, bounty hunting, and missions.

Did a trip out to Heart & Soul nebula which took weeks of real time grinding. It's definitely a repetative time-suck.

For the last 6 months i've just camped out in a system doing missions and building rep with all the factions, an hour or two here and there. Piled up 275 million credits from that and have no idea what i'll do with them because i'm bored of the grind.

I feel like this is a game for people who live a video game lifestyle, and that's not me. It's a good game if you accept all these aspects though.