Too little, too late. Six months later and still no creation kit. Out of any Bethesda title, this one might have the most potential for modding. But they wasted it.
It's pretty obvious that once the sales for the game tanked after the initial release that Bethesda just wrote the game off and reallocated the resources to other projects. There is a good amount of potential in the setting if problems were fixed and mod tools were released but a lot of the bones of the game are just bland and uninteresting.
Personally, I hope as soon as the modding community can put a kit together, we can bring some Managed Democracy™ to ol' Starflop. Really liberate the shit outta those planets that need us the most. The rest should be contracted out to our stouter kindred in honor of Karl. (Rock & Stone, my brothers!🤘🏽) A great cosmic field of stars for us, fresh outta the box!