So, uh, I started with the 2e rules and couldn't really get how the game was played. Then I went back and read this.
These rules are an order of magnitude clearer. What made you go to a more complicated ruleset with more terse, difficult to understand phrasing?
Maybe the new rules seem clearer if you read these first, but they're extremely confusing if you start with them.
I've gone into more detail on the 2e page.