Exactly, a practice mode. I remember in the old console days, the basic difficulty would sometimes only let you access a small portion of the game and help you get familiar with it. A beginner level difficulty that is chill and let’s you experiment and maybe even gives you feedback and tips about the game would help casual players that were not expecting a game that expects both RTS skills and typing skills.
Cause this game has a bunch of components you need to manage smart and you easily run out of fuel or get overflown by waste when you get started even on EASY which makes it difficult to grasp at first when you also want to rank many games. <3 I do feel the whole RTS with CLI mix is cool and unique!