obliviously missing the point.
You are the one missing the point here.
I'm not saying I'm great at the game, I'm saying your complaint that the tutorial battle is "too difficult" is ***.
You either didn't follow all the tutorial's steps to prepare you properly (they gift you an entire fleet and an inventory full of free equipment to put onto that fleet, all you have to do is follow instructions to salvage ships, then equip the fleet and buy some crew&supplies and the fleet you then get is good enough ot win that battle without you), or you somehow managed to engage both fleets at once on every single one of your failed attempts to fight, or you DECIDED to not use some of those salvaged ships because you didn't like their d-mods (in which case the battle isn't difficult, you just made it difficult for yourself), I can't imagine how else one would be able to lose there.
That battle at the end of the tutorial has to prepare the player for what to expect in the game.
And it is still very much on the low end of what the game will throw at you afterwards, so lowering it's difficulty any further is a terrible idea. You wouldn't want to make it out of the tutorial thinking "wow, what a bunch of chumps, that was easy" only to get completely game-over'd in the first battle afterwards, right?