The original Fading suns 4th ed rules are easy and work well. I’ve played and ran games online and in person. Anyone who knows basic arithmetic can run the game and doesn’t need “streamlined rules” which is code word for FS community forced this upon the game creator and still didn’t buy it. It gives the wrong impression to people new to the game that there is something wrong with the original rules which can make people pass on this game. I didn’t buy 4th ed originally b/c of the lie that the game was too complicated. It is not. Go with the original rules.
These 'streamlined' rules seem like they not only simplify but also rebalance the system to some degree. I wish they had been the original v4 rules to begin with.