AlexSo, I got back to X4. And just mid stream, the game paused itself with no actual way of un-pausing it.
Uuuuh. Ok?
As much as I'd love to go back to that game regularly, it's as @doubleaa said: the most difficult thing in this game is the control scheme.
I'll give it another spin, but at the next shenanigan it will be put in the bin.