Er, no, I don't really.

As an avid X3 player I agree that the learning curve is unpleasantly steep for the newbie; however, it's not *that* hard. I'd also like to know how they'd want the million billion options of the game to be organized, since they apparently don't like nestled menus.
It's also apparent that they haven't gone on playing for long; the Khaak usually have only one heavy fighter for every one or two dozen light scouts, and yes, the scouts die like flies, but their numbers and their hitscan weapons make them highly dangerous even to super-heavy fighters, especially later in the game when the really big clusters come out to play.

The plot feels like an afterthought. It's short, and I feel it doesn't mesh well with the rest of the game. IMO plot developments should be more dependent on your current status in the universe. As I mentioned in the Egosoft boards some time ago, I'd like it if you could get missions such as, say, "this guy has several factories in this sector. We need them gone because of (insert plot reason here), but we can't do a direct attack because of (insert plot reason here). Go build stuff yourself and drive him out of the market".

I haven't yet played the new game in the series (Terran Conflict), but I hear it should make the plot more important.

[Yeah - and other commenters on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun post say that the interface has been completely revamped, too. -Dan]

I'll conclude by mentioning the must-have Extended mod (XTM), which adds an assload (technical term) of new features, gameplay options and ships to vanilla X3.