Whats with the space combat hate?

A funny experiment:

Find a friend who dislikes SWTOR space combat.

Randomly say "Dude, remember how awesome Star Fox combat was, I wish they'd make a similar style of rail flier."

Watch them likely go "Oh yeah man, I loved Star Fox, I miss that type of game."

Then you can either point out their hypocrisy or silently giggle to yourself.

X-wing vs. TIE Fighter was a multiplayer space combat game back in what, 95 or something?

Why can't they make something like this?

-Full exploration and travel options in your ship.
-Weapons/shield/engines energy management like the old games.
-Can pilot, or man the turrets
-Capital ship engagements with friends
-Heavy, lighter types of ships
-Guild capital ships for multi-guild pvp engagements, pve missions, etc. Members control navigation, gun batteries, engineering, etc.
-Smuggler actually....smuggles.....
-Joystick support - can't believe we don't even have that
-Single seat fighters

Things like these would be quite easy to do. It has been done almost two decades ago. Imagine the fun if you were hanging around, say, an asteroid field in your stealthy Imperial Agent vessel ready to attack lone pvp targets, or you and a few friends were leading an assault group of Trooper heavy assault shuttles against a rival guild's star destroyer? Awesome.

But we get Starfox.

It's not free flight, that what people don't like.

There was variation in SF level-design and gameplay and actually had challenge. That game is also 15 years old.

TOR Space Combat is a mindless clickspam mini-game.