Leaving some parts aside, I agree with you. The manual actually worked pretty well for me, I actually liked it when I was starting to play. And well, the game is slow-pace at first, that's a feature of the game and it can't be changed so they would be changing the nature of the game. HOWEVER , although the slow pace the game proposes is good, the slow pace the game provides due economic reasos is awful. I came back to the game recently, and it'll take me many season to have a chance to go to D1 or to go to D2 and stay there, because I will not have money to build a stadium from 5000 to at least 12000 and buy trainers and buy players and invest in draft...
I think figuring out how the game works, the training and such is part of the game, but as I said, I partially agree w/ you. (you said so many things that's hard to point which ones I agree and which ones I dont lol)