I don't know why critics complain that the open world is empty

Yes, i can see you can't enter some locations and some quests being repetitive, but that doesn't always happen with normal open world games??? Besides, there are some world info on the data pads, just that they are widely spread and hard to find. That doesn't make them non-existent.

Personally, the sidequests are ok and the rewards as well, so the basics of a sandbox game are there. I don't know why people nitpick this game like it's the worst thing ever made. Literally no sense lol.