So how do you think they would stat out a marilith in starfinder? Just give them a special monster ability?
Not every feat is useful in every situation. You're going to have all your guns out in any situation you expect a fight, and it functions fine. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
Sometimes the guy with Step-up-and-Strike doesn't use two feats because the person he's next to doesn't back off.
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The benefit of having four arms is having options available to you that others wouldn't without wasting their actions to switch to other items.
You can have a variety of weapons in hand, with each dealing different damage types or possessing different properties (such as having a burning weapon, a cone weapon, a line weapon, and a penetrating weapon, for example). You could also mix and match ranged and melee weapons (having a pair of pistols and a two-handed chainswaw, for example).
They don't all have to be weapons either. You could easily have a ranged weapon, a melee weapon, a shield (or similar defensive item), and a tool or free hand with which to interact with the environment.
The ability to wield a two-handed ranged weapon while climbing, or to operate the steering apparatus of your vehicle while aiming guns out of each side window and the back widow is certainly nothing to sneeze at!
The four arms are seriously awesome as written. Now just imagine all the neat things you could do if you had six arms via cybernetic enhancements!
No, Kasatha are plenty overpowered already.