My memory of Elite Dangerous is trying to start auto-undocking, and the flight computer putting me on hold because of another person floating around in the docking bay. Eventually, it aborted the auto-undock; and the tutorial had not taught me how to release the controls to manually undock. So, eventually the station's security systems flagged me as flying in unpermitted space and destroyed my ship.

So that does seem to echo the "big learning curve" bit.