Remember it is X:Rebirth. Things are not looking great at the moment...but these things take time.
I hope they learn to use steam early access next time.
I hope that your optimism is correct, but one of the things that concerns me most is that their program is still 32-bit (also, more evidence of a console target). I don't know all the technical details, but I believe that makes it much harder to build the huge immersive universe they wanted with those technical limitations.
Again, I hope I'm wrong.