Visual Side of Space Battles/Camera Control

I love all endless space games. One of the many impressive things  this game has is a Space Battle. I almost never skipped the battle in the first game. They where stunning.

First thing i want to discuss is the visual side of battles. Despite the fact that ships designs and overall graphics are much better in Endless Space 2, the battles themselves look less impressive than in the first game. It's hard for me to explain why, mostly I think the reason lies in smaller projectiles, color variations , smaller ships or they look small because of camera FOV , the absence of fighters (which i know are coming so not complaining :) or maybe the backgrounds. first one had great space views.  Also adding cinematic effects to this battles would much increase the visual satisfaction. For example adding  slow motion when ship explodes (cliche, I know, but works).

Second thing i want to discuss is the camera.

First of all automatic camera changes position too random. Maybe if you tie them to the concrete event (ship destruction, torpedo collision etc) would be better.  A lot of times it hoped right before big boom :D.  Now free camera. The controls are very strange and not pretty useful. Arrows for movement are not very comfortable (p.s i know i can change it from the menu that's not the point) I suggest following control scheme. WASD for camera movement, Shift for movement speed. (Shift + WASD = Faster)  Right Click + mouse movement controls the angle, Shift + Right Click + mouse movement - faster angle change. Like in Game Engine editors (Unity 3D if i remember correctly has the exact camera control scheme I wrote).  

I also wanted to talk about tactical side of battles (Give us more opportunity, more management possibility (ideally like total war series :D) etc.. etc...), but lots of people already suggested that in other threads, also if I'm correct this is mostly a indie game and such things are resource heavy and time consuming  to implement so not insisting (maybe a little :) )

P.S I know that Space battles are not the main point of the game and it's like not in the first place by importance but it adds the mood to the game. In the first game when watched my  massive fleet obliterate the rivals ships it boosted the immersion in this world.  Like I felt I'm in control of the mighty empire not just clicking on dots on screen :D

Thank you for your time.