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It's not much different from Disco Elysium or Pentiment or Necromancer's Tale. The only significant difference is that you can freely move within the hub in these three. And I have suspicion that you couldn't do that In LaSoSB only due to money or time retraints. They gave you a map of the Empire for a reason. Yes, it's an easy and cheap way of adding some more worldbuilding, but I think that first and foremost it's a remnant of a cut feature