I really appreciate the advice, but none of that's news to me. My experience is basically:
Me: "Hey, that sounds like a cool event over there!"
Game: "3 screen wide hyperspace storm, huge planning requirement, dice rolls, calculations, bunch of planning work...ok now the event has expired."
And like, hey, I get it. That's the design. But I'm done. To me it's like the game is designed to taunt me with cool sounding things that by the time I can actually reach them, it's taken so much tedium and prep that the fun has been completely sapped from the experience. So the design seems fundamentally bad to me. If I could space prep/respec freely like every time I wanted to get to some far away event to travel there, then refit/respec to actually fight that battle, that would make sense. But some things you can't space refit, and space refit absolutely torpedoes supply. It's just no fun to me. I wish you all the best, but this just isn't for me.