First off, good job getting a large tile in four minutes. It’s pretty difficult to get your first couple big tiles, but properly scales from there. We are very aware of how horrible the balancing is and wish we had more time to fix it.
As for the starting craft, we figured it was the most compact way to provide every necessity to someone who didn’t already know how to play. If it started without four thrusters, people might be confused why they couldn’t move in some directions, if it started with only one grabber, it would be annoying to see junk you are physically unable to get, no storage and you would die instantly, no fuel and you couldn’t move, no refinery and you couldn’t get fuel.
This issue could have (and may still be) solved with the addition of a tutorial that teaches you to collect stuff and build these things at the start.
Thanks for playing!