there is another game in the making that adds all the sandbox PvE features that you could interprete as "Tabula Rasa +"

features i have been requesting for perpetuum PvE now for 2.5 years already... and yet, everytime they went a small step into that direction, there was a *** QQ from the afk-mining player and DEVs went 2 steps backward again, or turned it into another form of brainless grind feature (eg. raoming npcs -> observer kernels -> caravans)

on topic:

during the last two years the DEVs added more and more spawns to each island, which made the alpha islands look like completly neutral islands, since you could find all different kind of spawns just next to your terminal.
Then, at some point, they gave the islands their factional identity back, with blue islands mainly seeded with blue spawns, three green and one yellow. Same for other islands. There it made at least a bit more sense again.

Then, out of the blue, they reduced the total number of spawns for the dynamic ore spawn mechanic. Players complained that the world felt empty.

DEV solution: non-agression spawns everywhere on alpha, and mixing colors like 2 years ago again, making the NPC AI flaw perfectly visible: not only do they not attack the player, they are spawning green, blue and yellows within detection range of each others and not attacking anything on their own.