Similarity to Snowrunner?

I was wondering peoples opinions on expeditions similarity to snowrunner in how the world kind of works. I’ve mostly played coop and one thing I really liked about snowrunner was the open worldness that it provided. I liked being able to work on whatever contract I felt like while my partner was off doing something else

I gave expeditions a try after it game onto gamepass and it felt like it was very different in that aspect and that you had to choose missions and then load into them, rather than be in the world and drive to whatever mission you wanted to do?

Did I misjudge that? Or is it really just a one mission at a time kind of deal. I’m happy with the gameplay style being different in terms of the kind of missions and the exploration, but I just want that same structure of how you have missions laid out across the regions that you can do at anytime