I don't even think the procedural planet generation is all that special, lacking obvious features such as poles or indeed any sort of regional variation. No planetary map or a way to distinguish what/where you've already discovered is a pretty glaring omission as well.
IIRC Sean said that they made it that way to force people to explore multiple planets.
If 1 planet had multile biomes like the Earth you would spend too much time on 1 planet discovering it all
I too would love to have planets with multiplebiomes but I see his point
Anyway, lots of features are comming in the comming months/year, maybe they'll rethink about that
