X4 is a mile deep and an inch wide, Elite Dangerous is a mile wide and and an inch deep.

X4 lets you do much more; own, fly and command dozens or hundreds of ships but the play area is much smaller.

X4 has an empire management layer that you can choose to use, it also has lots of mods and you can save and load whenever you want.

That made me curious. Firefox + Ublock Origin just a wall of text in a pop-up. I hit the X and it didn’t bother me further.