First time impression EU5 (paradox veteran)

My experience with paradox was mostly with hoi4 and stellaris. This is my first EU game, and as usual I usually start off with micro nations to learn the game.

Decided to pick the Oneida people/six nations.

Ok first let's do the tutorial. Oops the tutorial is locked behind the taxation law and fails if you progress towards completing the tax law. Tribes dont start with taxation.

Looks like im playing without a tutorial.

Quickly learned that natives dont have access to making tools in any useful quantities, and they also have the technology to use iron permanently locked.

Emigrated to Niagara, but learned about the control system so tried building a road to connect the territories, but it has little effect.

Reached a population of 250k then the Columbian exchange wiped out 95% of the population in random spots leaving population outside your production zones.

Took me 300 years to learn how to make a town because the icon is so tiny and Ill placed.

Permanently locked out of trade for some weird reason.

It just feels like no time was spent on North America and whoever made these tribes had a very biased European view of native Americans.

They even have historical colonial ports around the great lakes listed as NON HARBOURs with scores of 0% with the only great lakes port being Hamilton (lol).