Unfortunately I haven't seen anything like that so far in Starfield

I have. There was a drop in a random facility I found while out exploring. Basically a message to the man's family as he knew he was going to die, thanking his kids, apologising to his wife for a few things, telling them how much he loved them, real tear jerking. Delivering it was.... Awkward.

I assume that things like this are peppered around. Just gonna take a while to find them and for the memorable ones to enter community consciousness.

Locations are painfully generic and I've already looted the same abandoned facilities multiple times on different planets.

Ew. That's pretty concerning.