I know it sounds dumb, but… The realisation came to me when I had been doing my missions quests for the third time: nobody is asking you to do your missions quests. Yes, they might give you a few useful items (and seven metric fucktons of rubbish, as well), some of them might even come in handy at the start, and yes, you can also get a whopping ONE hullcracker around the end if you invest all the time in it, but…
…You could just loot for the items you want, instead, or do your trials so that you have enough time to get the rank you want by the end of the period. Oh, and about the same amount of useful items (if not more) by getting the trials rewards.
Of course, if you just do it for fun (because you find it fun getting shot in the back while still looting for that fucking flow controller on your 7th Stella run), then enjoy the game the way you want (enjoy it anyway), but if you’re like me and those shiny yellow dots distract you enough to lure you into listening to bloody scrap brokers telling you to bring a handful of wires for a noise maker: you don’t have to. It’s okay. You’re not a slave to Celeste or Lance.
I just thought there might be dozens of us who needs to hear this, and I might not have been the only one to just do constant naked Stella runs to not waste resources BUT get a safe pocket. That’s when I raised the question: “Why am I doing this to myself, in the first place?”
( P.S.: they should rework these flow controller type missions quests anyway, because it’s truly, frustratingly unjust to not get spawned in medical/assembly and then having to try and extract alive only to restart and hope that you spawn in one of those zones. IMHO they should still randomise the location of those items within a certain zone BUT make them personal/unique, the same way they do with logs and books and shit, so that other players can’t prevent you from completing the mission quest by simply getting there first. The same has happened with the Rocket Assembly battery charging mission quest, already - I don’t see why they haven’t done the same here with the two Stella item missions quests.)