Thanks for your post, I feel less alone. Also, "Immersion", a word I haven't thought about, is important for a campaign in my opinion. I felt that was present in the old tutorial, not in the new one.
If you got the patience, you can read that: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=227&t=66406 ...

It's a balancing act. On one side of the problem, you have all the people who want the problem to be easier. On the other, you have all the people who want the problem to be harder. And right in the middle are the people who like the problem just the way it is, at least enough to buy the game ...

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It looks like some people find the introduction scenario very hard while others find it quite easy. Also, some people would like more assistance in it while other would like to be left alone.

Here's a suggestion: Add a difficulty slider

I would add 2 of them: one for time pressure (biters ...

I got similars expectations. But it looks like the introduction scenario was made to introduce the player to the future campaign, not to introduce the player for freeplay. I wonder if we had no expectations at all, how would we had perceived this game, would it looks like a good game? That's hard to ...

Finally, I know there's been a great deal of effort put into not having a "tutorial" but I think that's a mistake - a tutorial is a safe place for a player to learn under any timeline, whereas gameplay is not.

There is no shame in having a tutorial,

I could not agree more with this.

- at least, it gave some justification for previous step, but compilatron managed to multiply my donation. great

two lines below. so yes, you're right

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I'm here to give my personnal opinion on the new introduction scenario introduced in 0.17. I'm not a native english speaker so please forgive me for any mistakes I make in the following wall of text:

Before I begin, since that's my first ever post, I want to say I agree with every changes ...