With the Redux expeditions at the ending of every year we can assume that old expeditions can be re-introduce at any moment in NMS and with no time limit.

Most expedtions bring some new lore to NMS, which is very cool, but them being time-limited makes them useless after they end.

Making time-limited content on a game with no micro-transactions and no sort of Battle/Season-pass makes no sense because that means that the devs are not making more money with this and also means they are wasting they development time on time-limited content instead of focusing on making the game itself better with more content and updates inside the main game, and also the rewards are not really exclusive since all players on all platforms can just use save editor to get the rewards, I have all the expedition's rewards unlocked and never did a single expedition thanks to the save editor.

Most of FOMO of expeditions are towards already existing players, new players probably just think expeditions are the same thing as normal update but we all know they are not, most of new players have no idea that expedition's are time limited so the FOMO tactics are kinda useless.

There is no logical reason or benefit to the developers to make expeditions time-limited because like I said before most of people that are new don't even know about the time limit and so the expedition's bring the same amount of new players as an update would bring, if they make the expedition's permanent it wouldn't change how many new players but the game, and to old players they would still go back to do the expedition but without the FOMO feeling and that would be better to everyone.

Making them time-limited only means that they are wasting they development time to make something that isn't even a real change to the base game, so after they are gone the only thing that remains are the rewards, and like everyone knows all the rewards can be enable with a save editor on Playstation, PC an Xbox so the rewards are not really unique or exclusive.

They could make expedition mode a permanent mode, so that way ever new expedition they make would be added to a list of already existing ones for us to choose and complete, that way new players instead of just using save editor could just actually play the expedition. Also making Expeditions permanent would be a way to preserve the lore on them, without us needing to go to a wiki to actually learn the lore in them.

Also that way we would actually have more content in the game and new challenges, and their development time expended on expeditions wouldn't be simply wasted by making them time-limited.