Rail shooter mini-game = complete fail.
I would rather have just waited and let them develop a proper space expansion even if it took a year longer than expected like JTL did; all the while taking shuttles through mysterious loading screen-esque wormholes to get to other planets.
I can see Anakin whining about his starship and Revan's ghost pops up, "Back in my day, we flew on rails! Quit ur $&$%#@!"