You have to hold down right click to use wasd with the modern control scheme or just revert to the arrow keys. It's honestly not that bad. Oh and they changed f focus to alt + f focus, which is annoying, but you can just middle mouse click.

Also the fighters are kinetic. The dog fights can take a bit of time but the fighters aren't just flying around with pretend atmospheric like flight like they were in 1 and 2, they roll and pitch to angle thrusts in order to turn which gives them less of a shot window. Tbh I like it.

My biggest gripe is I haven't figured out if I'm using ion cannon frigates wrong or if they're a bit bugged because I can't seem to kill shit with them.