I didn't play in the beta and recently bought the game.  I read the manual, then played the tutorials, then played probably 5 single player, random small map, 1v1 games.  First I lost to an Easy Computer.  Then I beat the Easy Computer. Then I beat Normal Computers for 2 games.  And yesterday I beat a Hard Computer after trying to research how to be any good at this game, and following the LRM spam suggestion from the forums.  Now I guess I'll be trying my hand at Multiplayer... but I just played my first game and got destroyed, not knowing his scouts did 200% damage to my LRMs, as he informed me.

My point: this game doesn't do nearly enough to prepare you for human opponents.  The computer AI is easily beaten, especially when pirates are available, since winning the bidding war is a cinch, and keeps them pinned down while you mass a fleet.  The game tutorials do little more than tell you what the various buttons, and how to rotate and focus the camera.  Where are the tutorials telling me how armor works, or giving me a few insights into basic countering techniques, or telling me what I might expect playing against a human opponent?

Basically, this game has been in beta for months.  I'm disappointed that not only is there no single player campaign, but that the tutorials are only basic.  I'm just going to have to research through the forums and try and find replays to watch, and that isn't fun at all.  Sigh.  I doubt I'll be playing this game too long.