Lets just keep it simple shall we?
Since before release NQ has been told in multiple forum threads and constantly on Discord why this system is flawed.
We all know it is flawed. Even those of us that know how to work the system to our advantage advocate for a change.
Stop acting like it just needs more constructive feedback.
If the game designers want some help they need to engage.
Yes, let it be possible for anyone to find T2 within 20-30 hours of gameplay, and T3 within 40+ hours.
The way it works now very few people that scan first have the chance at up to T4 with very little time invested.
Then it's over. They have the tiles until they decide to sell said tiles or they abandon the game.
Here are two ideas:
A very simple way to change the system for the better would be to just increase the number of hotspots and make them smaller.
Another idea would be to have the process of finding ore take days on a single tile and be random in the size and type of pool that is found.
Digging for mega nodes was bad, we get it it. But if people can still have a chance to find a "mother load", even if it needs to be mined out slowly, that is way better than scanning tiles for hours on end and not finding anything but T1.