I don't know how fair it really is to make this complaint since a stated design goal for Starfinder was to downplay direct involvement of the pantheon in how things play out, and the sole divine caster class is very specifically more of a contemplative guru sort of class than an active church representative, but looking at Starfinder's core 20 deities, none of them really strike me as being particularly concerned with what any of the others are doing. Plus there's an alarming trend towards "this is the deity this race traditionally worships" which kind of inherently drags in some implied racial alignments (and weird ones at that).
Just going down deity by deity here...
Abadar- He's doing pretty damn well for himself lately, and probably has the most direct footprint on the setting via Abadarcorp, but there's no real cause for his followers to work on advancing and no one prominent that'd take issue with his faith's current prosperity. Feels like there's a missed opportunity here fading Erastil and Gozreh into the background rather than playing up a March Of Progress vs. Green Faith conflict.
Besmara- OK Besmara was always one of my favorite minor deities and is absolutely in a prime position to stir the pot with pretty much anyone, but there'd be space pirates to do that whether she was in the mix or not.
Damoritosh- I outright dislike his existence. Being our big war god, he's kind of stealing a seat from Gorum, and doesn't seem nearly as fun. Plus honestly, he's an explicitly evil deity who's specifically cited as the chief deity of the one core race that quite recently declared a war of subjugation against the rest. Which really recolors that from the space opera trope of two big empires butting heads on principle then making up to the vesk being an unambiguously villainous faction with no real business being in the core 7 race options, particularly if you play his obvious plot card of trying to get the Silent War going again.
Desna- In a similar boat with Abadar. Spacefaring societies existing at all should have her pretty content, no real ambitions or conflicts.
The Devourer- Another one I really just don't like being in there. Destroying everything is already Rovagug's domain, and aside from having that sort of kaiju charm, the threat posed by Rovagug casts a huge shadow over both the setting for both games. Took a big team-up of other major deities to seal him away, and now the place he was sealed away in is missing. It's a bad move to recast that portfolio and role in the setting to someone who doesn't have that pantheonic team-up backstory. Plus, while evil, it seems very passive about it, and with the entropy theme feels more like it should be NE than CE, to match up with daemons.
Eloritu- Basically just Nethys. The search for the other runes bit makes for nice plot hooks, but not much is going on here otherwise.
Hylax- I do like having a super chill peaceful bug goddess, but she's too innately passive to drive any conflicts. Also it's weird to me that she's so into free will and tied to shirrens but then she's LG. CG feels like it'd make more sense.
Ibra- Even worshipers of Ibra don't seem to have a clear handle on Ibra's motives or mandates.
Iomedae- There's no world wound, no apparent lingering Chelish empire to worry about (outside the continued presence of the hellknights, but they seem to be downplaying the hell end of things), and her more traditional enemies didn't seem to make the cut. I do really like having her around as a sort of anachronistic vestige of knightly values (even if that is a weird role for the youngest deity in the book), but there's not much for her followers to go crusading against. Damoritosh's forces are allies, the Devourer's are fringe cultists.
Lao Shu Po- Kind of feels like she's picking up the slack from shelving Calistria, Norgorber, and Achaekek, which gives followers something to do, but not making a big splash keeps her in a passive/supporting role when telling stories, and again we have an evil deity as the main patron of a core 20 race.
Nyarlathotep- He seems like the most active mover and shaker in the pantheon, although Mythos stuff always strikes me as too tied to material plane power struggles to really feel like a religious conflict thing.
Oras- I appreciate there basically being a Church of Science, but again, without someone like Erastil to object to rapid change, there's no fodder for conflicts here.
Pharasma- Pharasma still hates Urgathoa. That's the one clear conflict from the old core 20 still going strong, and there's a lot to play up with it with the whole Corpse Fleet angle.
Sarenrae- It's weird for Sarenrae to be around when Rovagug isn't. She's still a generally all around great goddess for any good character to worship, and her church colonizing the sun is amusing but her church kinda feels like they have no pressing matters and can take a long vacation.
Talavet- Doesn't like Nyarlathotep, likes telling stories. No real strong plot threads coming to mind here.
Triune- The whole drift drives breaking off chunks of other planes thing would be a fantastic plot hook for a truly epic campaign with other deities feeling their domains are under direct threat or laying the groundwork for some terrifying multiphase sinister plot from Triune... but to follow through on that, drift drives would need to stop being used and that just breaks the whole setting.
Urgathoa- Again, clear conflict here with Pharasma, and she basically has her own whole planet. Eox being a pact world strikes me as a weirder thing for everyone to be cool with then Geb having a thriving fruit trade though.
Weydan- Feels fairly redundant, honestly.
Yaraesa- She's another advancing knowledge deity in a pantheon where that arguably describes about 8 others. Appropriate for the science fantasy setting to have some redundancy there, but things are pretty well covered.
Zon-Kuthon- It really feels like he should have way more of a spotlight than he does, with exploring the mystery of how he went all Hellraiser and/or Shelyn trying to fix him (or falling to a similar fate) being a general background element of the setting and/or the meat of at least one AP, but... it kind of feels like the Devourer's cult and Nyarlathotep are stealing that limelight, and he doesn't really seem like a natural antagonist for anyone else. If anything having a lot of weird new alien races to interact with makes the spooky S&M religion feel a bit quaint, and between drift travel and high tech vehicles in general the shadow plane feels like it's not going to come up much.
So... for clear conflicts here, we have:
Abadar vs. Besmara - LN vs. CN
Pharasma vs. Urgathoa - TN vs. CE
Iomedae vs. Nyarlathotep? - LG vs. CE but not really an active conflict
And everyone else is just kinda... hanging around being passively worshipped, not really interacting or plotting anything.
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Zon-Kuthon I can see being behind a Shadow Drive and becoming a 'Third Column' in a campaign or AP or three.
Nyarlathotep for some reason is defensively deployed against some big bad stuff. You may not see it publicly known, but I'd bet credits to crullers that he's the reason why the Pact Worlds have such a staggering breadth of destructive weaponry. Some say he graced the knowledge of nuclear weapons on various worlds ... there's a lot more going on with Nyarley than is ever going to be visible on the surface. The religious angle is covert rather than overt in Starfinder, which suits Nyarley just fine.
Talavet is a Security Risk. ;)
For all the characters I've made so far, I've found the deities uninteresting and made atheists.
Which is to say they don't acknowledge the gods as worthy of worship, not that they don't acknowledge the existence of gods, 'cuz that question is objective. Heck, you can even look at the production notes on one of the gods.
I was never terribly fond of the Golarion pantheon. Now, with Starfinder, with bits and bobs of the Golarion pantheon mixed with space gods, it feels just kind of flat and hollow. But themes of gods aren't really what I go for in space. Even when things get spiritual, I'm more interested in the philosophy than the deities.
Peace is a lie; there is only passion.
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While the original D&D/Pathfinder pantheon is obviously a timeless pairing of perfect adversaries, the Starfinder pantheon feels more like a post-Gap survivors' scenario. So, sure, it's all haphazard, but it'll still be interesting to see why and how some gods faded to obscurity, disappeared/died, rose to divinity, etc.
While I haven't thought of the gods from a GM perspective yet, it's kind of interesting. I enjoy a lot of the gods on their own (more than similar Golarion gods) and quite a few you criticise are ones my palyers connected to easily.
Especially Yaraesa is popular and I personally I'd see her more as the main science god; I feel like Oras focus is different and less... academic.
Triune, Ibra, Weydan and Eloritu are other gods that my players like.
Personally I like Damaritosh for being a bit more practical than Gorum. Hylax is another favourite of my and I WOULDN'T want her to be CG. A LG god that nudges people to pursue their individuality in ordered ways is right up my alley. (The Shirren stuff in general is!) For conflict I'd maintain she makes the easiest plot hook: She is the one god that has a known mortal form and Shirren are still mistrusted because of the swarm. Attacks on the Forever Queen could make a great plot.
Lao Shu Po I honestly like more than the equivalent Inner Sea gods. Her being a patron god out of fear for a good part too is interesting.
Talavet I agree I don't really... get. The Devourer seems kind of bland too, including his name.
And on some gods not having a big enough spotlight: They ARE core gods though, and the system is very young. I'm pretty sure future content will shed light on some motivations and doings here and there.
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Oras has quite a lot of biochemistry.
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I think the deities not interacting as much as in, say, Pathfinder is a feature not a bug. We're talking a whole solar system worth of different cultures, all with their own traditional faiths. Honestly, it's surprising as many are familiar to us as are, and that any of them are connected to each other is almost equally shocking.
And lets not overstate how connected the Deities in Pathfinder were. Irori, Gorum, Nethys, Norgorber, and Erastil have almost no connections with any of the others, just to start with. At least not going by their original 1/2 page descriptions.
That said, I also disagree with many of your points.
By deity:
Abadar: Abadar is the face of corporate culture and both profits and progress prioritized over all things. You don't need a deity directly opposing him for that to cause conflict, and to be honest he and Erastil got along fine in Pathfinder and I don;t recall he and Gozreh having major conflicts either.
Besmara: Her rising in prominence due to the prevalence of space piracy just makes sense. Admittedly, I'm not sure of a lot of cool conflict options, but she's the Goddess of Piracy, you can make some up easily enough.
Damoritosh: The Vesk are clear Klingon equivalents. Their prevailing culture being on the shadier side of Neutral and their god and priesthood being Evil makes good sense to me. It's not like the Pact Worlds, with the Drow and Eox signed on, are all sweetness and light either. Frankly, without an Evil deity in charge they start looking am little too much like the good guys. Given the setting, you want people to sympathize with the Pact Worlds (where their characters are from) not the empire that tried to conquer them.
Desna: Has always been a stalwart foe of the Elder Gods and particularly the Dominion of the Black. That's an awesome wealth of conflict right there, especially given that the two enemies in question are very much at odds right now.
The Devourer: With Rovagug gone (and he needs to be gone, given Golarion's vanishing), the role of 'destroyer' really did need someone to fill it. The Devourer works in that role for me. Besides, who says he doesn't have some awesome backstory? It's early days yet and we know little about him.
Eloritu: I like Eloritu, and don't think he actually resembles Nethys all that much beyond being a Neutral deity of magic. Nethys had a magic supremacist thing going that was actually quite distinct from Eloritu's philosophy, in addition to his whole 'madness' thing. Eloritu is much more sane and reasonable. No, there aren't a huge number of built-in plot hooks, but then again which of those did Nethys have again?
Hylax: Individuality and LG aren't inherently in conflict at all, and I frankly think the Forever Queen would be a lot less interesting with a more stereotypical interest/alignment pairing. Actually, that dichotomy does a lot to create the potential conflicts you say you're interested in. Even within her church, which seems cool. This is particularly true since there's both a Bug Pope and the equivalent of Bug Protestants. That's really cool.
Ibra: I gotta admit, Ibra's something of a cipher to me. Of course, maybe that's the point.
Iomedae: There's lots of things for Iomedae to crusade against. Cultists of The Devourer and The Elder Gods first among them, but also many other things from Demons and Devils (still a thing, after all), to the Aztlanti Empire (who are pretty unpleasant). Plus, aside from the crusader thing, she's quite thoroughly assumed her fallen patron's role as Patron of Humanity (albeit in a much nicer way), which is pretty great and drives a bunch iof potential plot threads if followed through on.
Lao Shu Po: Actually, Lao Shu Po, in current form is another legacy Deity, this one from the Tian Xia stuff, where she's one of the Core 20. I really like their inclusion of her, both because it shows that the inclusion of Golarion deities isn't limited to those in the Inner Sea area, and because she was already associated with the Ratfolk, and Ysoki are a main race. Speaking of which, they do specifically note that few Ysoki do more than try to keep her attention off of her.
Her areas of interest are cool and in need of being covered, and the references to her cult being tolerated due to being useful open up all sorts of interesting possibilities for moral conflicts.
Nyarlathotep: Nyarlathotep is awesome, and is indeed a very active deity. The explanation of his popularity in the Pact Worlds is also excellent.
Oras: Oras, much like Nethys or Gorum in Pathfinder, causes conflict because of his singular focus. He only cares about evolution and change. Regardless of petty things like morality. He was made for mad scientist plots and works excellently as a justification for them.
Pharasma: Yep. The Pharasma/Urgathoa thing is still going strong. Pharasma's morally dubious anti-undead (no matter how nice they are) policy is also more center stage. which should be interesting.
Sarenrae: Sarenrae's always been so much more than her conflict with Rovagug. And all the enemies I pointed out above for Iomedae are equally so for Sarenrae. Plus the Pact World system sets up great opportunities to redeem places like Eox. OR, given the current peace, the Vesk.
Talavet: Talavet is exactly the personification of tradition to oppose people like Oras you've been complaining about not existing. She does, she's right here.
Triune: There are other FTL systems, just none quite so economical. Also, you can easily put the Drift conflict center stage while still continuing to use it. Triune's different aspects and role as patron of AI in general can also be used for interesting plot seeds.
Urgathoa: Yep, the feud's still there. Eox has the advantage of being an eally of necessity, and of most of its citizens not needing to eat people.
Weydan: Redundant with who? Desna? They both have the same Alignment and like traveling, but that's where the similarities tend to end. Weydan's specific interest in equality, in particular, is a great plot seed and one Desna doesn't share. As is his need to discover new things. Desna's devotees might just travel around to see things they personally have never seen. Weydan's want stuff nobody has ever seen. He also has a specific conflict with Abadar (due to the inequality Abadar's corporate attitudes often foster) of exactly the sort you said you were looking for. The avatars thing is cool, too.
Yaraesa: Actually, Yaraesa is the only deity of science in and of itself, and mental perfection as an end-goal. Oras and Eloritu have scientist followers, certainly, but the science is a means to an end (magic or change, respectively). Yaraesa is the only one who focuses on scientific discovery as an end in and of itself. Pure, as opposed to applied, research. The self perfection angle is also cool, as is the utter rejection of blind faith.
Zon-Kuthon: Who says there isn't gonna be more focus on that mystery? That'd be interesting, certainly. And I think the cenobite thing he's got going fits in very well in the setting, personally. 'Quaint' is not my first thought in regards to a philosophy prizing suffering. Suffering is universal.
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We need a Pact World Gods book. You hear that Paizo?
I just saw Ibra as something like the god of Space Nature, myself. The Green Faith is mentioned as a philosophy, yet with space being the big deal, and with planets that might not have a typical ecological system, a god representing the universe and its natural wonders seemed somewhat fitting.
Also, as such a god, his faith might have something of a conflict with the Devourer's cult. God of Space vs. God of Oblivion is how I see it.