[Reproducible crash creating defaultgalaxy]

This is avoidable but still.

Delete the defaultgalaxy, Then go to recreate it, it'll be lit up red and tell you the galaxy already exists. Add a space at the end, the warnings go away. Delete the added space before continuing, everything's fine. Forget to delete the added space, the game crashes.

The add-a-space-at-the-end trick works great for reusing crew-hire counts btw.

[Shelving the game indefinately - STILL unable to dock at any station (new game)]

This is not a rare case for me. It's not exactly usual, but it's definitely not rare. Fly up to a docking port until it says F Interact (docked), browse the menus / decide what you want and ask for it, the game says no, you have to be docked, while at the same time telling you you're docked. Fly away from the dock, fly back, same result.

Y'all need to put some diagnostics into your not-docked rejections to check whether the  game didn't mislead the player into thinking they're docked.

rclick-docking from strategy view regardless of whether the game tells you you're already docked seems to work around this.

[[2.2.2] Patrol Sector order missing from Autopilot menu but not from Orders (from other ship) menu]

See the screenshots, cant order my own ship to patrol, switch to another craft, select the one I just left, interact, orders, it lets me give the patrol order.

[QOL: Make reset-camera (home) reset whatever view you're in, not just free cam.]

In particular zooming out in strategic view gets annoying because sometimes you want to zoom wayyy out.  If "reset" meant "make the selection occupy about half the short dimension on your display" that'd be wonderful.