TL;DR, the game doesn't have a learning curve, its a learning cliff with a fake climbing teacher who takes your money, promises to teach you, then tells you to climb without any gear, support, or tips while they stay down below and enjoy the show.

My thoughts of the beginning gameplay: The "tutorial" is useless and not even common sense of games of this type helped me, the only way to learn is to waste more time then should be logically necessary OR watch a bunch of videos, but if you're gonna watch a video why play it at all and not just watch someone else play it? Factorio from what i've seen was the FIRST of this kind to truly do things right, this is just another Factorio gone 3D. The game isn't designed for people who learn by being told what they need to do as they're doing it (aka instructive hands on) its designed for those who learn by studying and applying what they studied later on by throwing objectives at you and yelling "FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF OR WATCH SOMEBODY BETTER DO IT".

My true experience in game: took me 30 minutes to get to the point it says "Scan for Copper and Tin" and 19 more minutes before i gave up because it doesn't help you with anything at all.