When you feed the people enough pap, that's all they want
What can you expect from a generation raised on Star Wars, Star Trek, and Sword and Sworcery? Real space missions that take actual time to do things, follow real physics, and return real science - puleeze!
Gimme a light saber, a CGI alien, a starship that can go FTL and turn on a galactic credit, and bad dialogue and plotting anytime!
Real robot rovers exploring an alien world millions of miles from Earth - snore.