Wow, you are right, it is frigging horrible.
I grew up playing flash games and real RTS like RA2 and stuff and this RTS session is one of the most unintitive thing ever.
1. Doesnt bother to give you a tutorial level so its confusing from the start.
2. Everything is designed to be annoying chore.
3. Again, no upgrades whatsoever. Even the most basic kinda game would have a upgrade tab for various towers.
4. Overall just unpleasant
To make it a constructive criticisim. I will give some advice since I played stuff like antiyoy and civ games:
1. Crystal light should be passively generated from purified tiles. Make Conduit a economic upgrade as opposed to a source of nuisance clogging up the tiles and make conquering actually feels rewarding.
2.Increase the range of stabliser as you increase the power input. Or else this building also clogs up the tiles.
3. Make reasonance cannon overall cheaper, right now its just a noob trap.
4.Display position of POI on the map because your map doesnt have clear border.