Anyone else wish habitat 7 would be a full map?

Again... Voeld's frozen water supply (i.e the reason it is not a desert) is what ties it's environment specifically into the story.  It creates the water economy (ice running) that supports the outpost on Voeld.  It also has a slug of potential applications/environmental effects down the road as the planet warms... not all of which are positive effects.  I don't think it's accidental that Voeld's temperature post vault reset doesn't actually warm up that much yet... but Ryder and others refer to it warming up 10 years into the future.  I don't think it's acccidental that the Angaran settlements (Techix, Hjara, and the other one) are built on the lake ice and not on solid ground (which the Alliance outpost is built on solid ground).  "Global warming" is another potential story line Bioware to take with this.

As for the rest, I don't find the environments introduced in this game (the start of a series) to be all that unvaried... sure, not all of them are major planets yet (read yet)... but we don't really know where, at this point, Bioware has planned to take this story in the long run.  I''m sure they selected each of these environments with a purpose beyond just giving the players a variety of alien looking environments.  There is a foundation to expand on the smaller maps in subsequent games, like Havarl - which according to the view from the sanctuary supports quite massively built up (urban) center just beyond the walls of the current map.  We haven't even been allowed out of the city on Aya, but the Angarans are really crunched for space their... invoking a lottery that allows individuals to enjoy that environment for only a few years each.  It's lush, but there is no space because of the steep cliffs and waterfalls.  We're not done with this story yet... and the story of this game is, I think, an environmental one based on the pressures we have here on earth, right now.  Bioware is again using their game stories to mirror and cause us to reflect on our realities.

If you're referring to the weather system that is very hard to pull off. Fallout 4 had numerous bugs related to it. To do it on multiple maps that don't intertwine? Bad idea.

If they do they might it's possible they might include something like that in with the cure for Mum stuff if they do something in that area.

I hope they do.

I would love to explore Meridian.

Personally, I would have preferred to have more missions like Habitat 7...focused map that, while explorable, funneled you along the narrative path. I think that the planets could have existed as big, explorable hubs but focused and then opened up into open world maps post-game

Why couldn't we explore Meridian after the final battle?  :sob: