That's surprising, I thought I left quite a bit of leeway for the anomaly.
I had a friend playtest it before and he didn't realize at first that you could "fly" by pressing and holding space after launching (once you get the thruster research), did you? Or if it's not that, did you notice you could level up some research several times by clicking them again? (Launch Power and Fuel in this case)
I wanted to add more tutorials to fix that but ran out of time before I could