I have cleared out 6 sectors on my own. I noticed the sector count says 3 out of 12. The last two times I have cleared areas out, I noticed the cleared count stays on 3. Why am I not getting credit for clearing out the sectors? I get the reward and the message indicating I've done it, yet the counter doesn't move forward. I've already had to deal with losing all my progress today when I cleared out all sectors and the map switch forced me to leave the area and lost all my progress.
And just right now, the map forced me leave the area and I lost, again, all the progress I had. This time I took video. If this is part of the design, this is a big problem and an unfair situation.