There are a few threads on the Frontier forums running along a common theme. Basically there are a lot of features that people have said are placeholder that seem to becoming permanent. For example we have at various times in the Newsletters and elsewhere been shown cargo screens and trading screens but so far in Beta we have some pretty basic screens for trading. Things like the supercruise exit are "placeholder" and my concern is that these things are going to stay the way they are. At the moment we basically have Elite 2014, it is the original game but with updated graphics. I'm a little disappointed that a lot of the features (Orrery maps!) seem to have been scaled back.
Now maybe Frontier are going to pull a rabbit out of a hat and fire all these things into the game but for me they should be in the Beta now so we can test them. There is no point in testing placeholders is there!
I worry that the full release is being rushed out for the Christmas market and will be less than it could have been. I know Frontier can update these things after the release but to be honest I would rather wait and get the full game finished properly.
Maybe I worry too much. Thoughts anyone?
Edit: Here's one of the threads on the Frontier Forums and the first post contains a lot of the screenshots I'm talking about.
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50682