I want stories, where, when the enemy is using human shields, the protagonists goes “No, i won’t attack. That would be a war crime, too.” This is not a story like that. Is it really too much to expect stories where the protagonists don’t commit mass murder? Oh, but she feels so conflicted about it. Spare me that.

Oh, also, space reefs! Here the “take stories from Earth and transfer them to space” idea does not work. At all. Many of the fight senes would technically work fine with ships and star forts, city walls &c. Instead we get space ships, star fortresses and shields.
Why do star forts work? Because you can’t really go around them. Why do star fortresses work? … ??? Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Not here tho. Here “you could be forgiven for thinking, (…) that the entire (space ship) – the entire (fleet) – was in danger of crashing into some kind of space reef.”