New Player Question. Does anything in this game actually.... work?

I made a post a few days ago about how the box collection missions were bugged so i lost time there. Then i did 4 attempts at a hauling mission, 3 of which were bugged / glitched, and only on the 4th one was I able to make $5000 on a 24,000 daily rental ship, netting me -19k.

Decided to try some bounty hunter missions with my 2015 F7 medium fighter thingy.

First mission, go to a location, and for some reason its on the ground. No worries. ill try to fight a guy with my fists and steal his gun.....

completely, and utterly empty. Not a single soul in sight save a few ships hanging around outside the underground facility.

Fly away, cancel that mission, and decide to try another. Fly to another area. Get there, end up 3km away. Dont want to spend 3 minutes flying there at 10 M/S so i bring my landing gear back up. Instantly hit 500 M/S and decelerate about 30 M/s, meaning i needed about 15-20km to slow down enough to not slam into the ground. My fault, no big deal. Spawn back at Area 18 and decide to try something called a "low risk bounty target" or something like that. Go to the hangars to claim my F7C back. Click on the board.....

no response. the fleet management tablets thing just stopped responding to the commands, both the F key and the physically toughing them function.

Closed the game, now down 5000, on top of the 19000 i lost a few days ago...

Is this it? is this really the game that cost a billion dollars? The game that took me 10 years to get a computer powerful enough to fly around in the ships I bought a decade ago?