Well, "better tutorial" is definitely a matter of taste. For some, the taste they are looking for is "minimalistic." I do believe, however, that there is an important and very real difference between a minimalistic tutorial and the absence of a tutorial. The former is about giving the player the least information possible to have a reasonable chance of deducing everything they need to learn; the latter is about giving even less information than that.
Me, I'm a big fan of the minimalistic tutorial. Seriously. Huge fan. When I think of "good tutorials," I think of the first few test chambers in Portal. But minimalist isn't the same as nothing-ist. Earlier in this thread, I was requesting that Larian find a way to squeeze one second of crafting tutorial into the game. Seriously, I think one second would do it. But zero seconds does not do it.
The one thing which is utterly silly is the suggestion that we should read manuals. This isn't the 90s. Hell, even if it was the 90s, if you downloaded the entire game and never put hands on a physical copy, it would still be ridiculous to expect users to read a manual.
