I have to manually buy every single vehicle? Why are there so many steps to setting up something as simple as a bus line? What the fuck do railway semaphores even do, and why at no point does the tutorial explain when to use which type? Why don't my airports come with places to park my planes, I have to buy them manually? Oh god there's voltage and wattage and different voltage wires and how do I know when to use which and make sure everything has the right amount of power the tutorial never explained that-
On one hand, I want to get into this game, but on the other, it seems like I'm going to constantly have my economy crash and fail and have to start over because I forgot the one obscure step in dozens to set up even the most basic of industries.
I like to see it as a factorio style game. You are essentially building and managing a massive system of raw resources and converting them into usable outputs, then using those outputs.
It IS a city builder, but from a completely resource-based angle. And I kind of love it for that. But yes it is extremely complex.
Tutorials that take you through the process of creating a bunch of scenarios would help. A small village based off of one resource as you said, and a bunch of others.