No cheating is pretty bad in many of these missions.
My personal favorite is Eye of the Storm where podding is fine until you need to deliver supplies.
Podding with supplies fails and makes sense.
Podding without any supplies is cheating for some reason. Visiting Armene to travel lz is not even better since you still have to deliver supplies.
Excellent idea slowing ship holding supplies, part of me wants that added to Resource War.
Got hilarious fps stuttering issues 'Gather the rest of your team.' message presumably causes while doing Inside Job. The hardest part is not podding due to the stutter.
Easy improvement to Inside Job by adding something short like "oh orbit is not longer safe" and a short timer to land instead of idk instantly failing cuz 'shortcut'.
Really gives the feeling that this whole mission cheating was not very well implemented.
Easy improvement to Operation Forward Defense. Rather than just 'That was correct.' why not "part 1 correct" "part 2 correct" and so on. Unstable Geology tells you last device activated which could also work here as well.
Don't forget scope shifted repair turrets not showing reduced range visually! (its still reduced)