I'll just bring out my copy pasta again since I'm lazy.
>have 20 years of community feedback
>free R&D, that usually costs an arm and a leg for companies
>20 years of modding feedback as well
>20 years of everyone giving you the exact concise list of reasons, the fucking recipe book, on what made Relic's Homeworld great
>Gearbox takes the IP, assembles a half-competent dev team lead by retards with a few retarded inserts under its arm, and fucks it all up despite having everything going for them to release a good game
lmao
I'm beyond apathetic these days at the gaming industry to feel what I should be feeling about this.

I'll instead list potential spiritual successors to Homeworld, whether any are good or not, is up to time.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552260/Phantom_Havoc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2363280/NULLSPACE/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2621540/Masada/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3102780/CBeams/
^ (This one ain't RTS from what I've seen, but has that HW atmosphere at least)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3179370/Ephemeris/
^ (4x with RTS elements? Forgot)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2275750/Ascendance/
^ (Grand Strategy + RTS)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3438130/Dynasty_Protocol/
Same as above.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1490930/Capital_Command/
^ (For Nexus The Jupiter Incident and Nebulous Fleet Commmand fans)
Since I'm mentioning it, for those who missed it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Command/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706360/Annihilate_The_Spance/
^ (For screen chaos fans, base building / autobuilder RTS)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2509200/ERA_ONE/