Alright, I feel confident in giving first impressions:
Performance is better, hindered by ungodly particles, zoom, and expensive sprite work.
Racing is awful, resetting gives no I-frames, the obstacles are nigh unavoidable, the AI can just disable or kill you, the steering is not responsive enough and needs a lot of undone onboarding, and you can just skip parts of the track if you go through the borders fast enough): most of these are mostly due to zoom (both because zooming in has better performance and because the camera panning is slow)
Using stasis generators is pretty annoying with too little range (just...just hotkey), also pickup range is a bit too low, carrier transport is useless, and mining is monotonous (I presume it gets less ass with progression, but no, you don't make me work for the fun).
TLDR, the mining is a job, the starter ship is too brittle, races (controls in general) aren't tight enough, and all of it is a bit more irritating by all 500 particles making a GPU cry.