Rather, it will speak to Mars lovers because the game is a love letter to Mars, really. The planet model is actually very good and there’s a lot of bit and pieces of log you can read about previous missions and future or made-up ones.
The terraforming is actually more challenging, its not easy to rise sea level for instance. I’m almost to the point where the atmosphere is breathable and it was very nice to see the planet changes, water emerging and filling up plains or craters, forests replacing lichens, etc (can’t wait for animals when the C02 level will drop).
Also, the story is actually unexpectedly good for that time of game (albeit somewhat cliché in some aspects but still has interesting upsets and plots).

So yeah, if you’re the patient type and can bypass some repetitiveness and occasional boredom over setting a new base and doing the exact same thing for the 5th time, this game is still a very interesting experience for every space/mars enjoyer.

My enormous logistics network doesn’t seem to get stuck and starve things unless I demand too much throughput from a single worker zone (though I do observe some apparently purposeless driving-resources-in-circles sometimes). If something’s starving, it’s almost always simply that I’m not making enough of its inputs. I’ve never seen the “gets stuck at 99/100 resources” issue (though I haven’t built space elevators yet).

Terraforming does now unlock some new gameplay:
- you can build water treatment plants on the edges of oceans, and you use the resulting piped water to supply several buildings that accept only that form of water and to make unlimited ice for buildings that need it
- you get less expensive/fiddly options for making food as the planet becomes more habitable (building farms in craters, then open-air farms)
- you can still mine the resources after the ocean covers them by building ships/ports, a logistics system that works differently from any of the previous options
- once the planet is warm enough and has enough atmosphere, you can start planting vegetation, which provides tons of oxygen for free but also poses an interesting management challenge because you can’t simply turn off the trees if you have too much oxygen

The UI remains kind of clunky, but I don’t think I’ve seen any of the flagrant bugs you report.

All of the “repeatable” space port projects I’ve seen can automatically repeat now, including satellite launch.

Issues that are definitely still present:
- game pace is still slooooow, even running at 16x the entire time
- different options for terraforming (asteroids/imports/factories) are still wildly divergent in cost effectiveness, and the game still doesn’t give you enough information to meaningfully compare before building them (although factory output per time is now in the UI)