It's odd they don't run re-ecpeditionsv regularly. It's kind of cool being online with lots of people in the same systems, in addition to the expedition exclusives.

Like what's the cost of re-running expeditions? The work is mostly done. You could argue that it makes them "less exclusive", so less FOMO. But seriously, it's still pretty damn exclusive if you have to wait a couple years or more for an expedition to repeat. How many people play a game that long?

Some players aren't find of expeditions, but you can always just not do them, and besides they will likely be less crowded on Redux runs.

Oh well.

I think Hello Games is doing something big behind the scenes. Last Expedition was the worst one so far imo, it was the first one to have ZERO narrative of any kind, 100% just chores and fetch quests. PC received an Experimental update weeks ago that Console still hasn't received. And this next update represents part 4 out of 4 of the Void Mother narrative, the grand finale.

All of that makes me feel like a lot of the core team is working on something else.

So I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I will say, to me, it's another indication that something huge is on the way.

If I had to speculate, I think there could be a couple things at play...

1. They have been focusing on bug fixes and stability lately as seen in the experimental branches on Steam instead of new features. They added support for MacOS and iPadOS earlier this year, which I'm sure complicates ongoing development.
2. There have been many game releases lately that may have pulled people away from NMS, like Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, etc. It may not be worth it for them to invest resources in re-running the expeditions if people are currently focused elsewhere.

Personally, I am on a NMS hiatus until the next expedition or major update.