Went through tutorial and several warps afterwards. Managed to do some kills. Just for the record I played the original 8 bit Elite back in the 80s :)
I think the controls and navigation can be improved quite a bit. I'll need to play some more to give specific suggestions.
Neither of camera orbit modes feel natural to me. I'd prefer fully free and relative mode where delta x and y mouse movement result in delta orbit around current x (right) and y (up) vectors of the camera basis.
This lack of free orbiting was frustrating me all the time, as it makes hard to visually follow anything that flies by.