With games like this, my experience is that after a while you tune out the quirks and annoyances and just enjoy the game. Hopefully that happens for you, and sorry if I came off too negative, above.

It’s a turn based strategy game, I expect it to be slow. 🤷

I'm at an age where I've been playing them forever, so actually I pretty-much stick to only fast turn-based strategy games, with little or no backstory. The webgame "Compact Conflict" would be an example.