As a 13yr Eve veteran, I am really enjoying this beta. It currently has a good 'no hand holding' feel about it that Eve used to have. I have screwed up so many times even in the first week. The bugs are fine, it's a beta, that's why we're here.
You should have been on the forums the day that CCP released an Eve update that deleted the player's boot.ini. Now THAT was a bug.