Overall, a nice review. Not sure which radar he was referring to, the one that detects occupied systems or the one that you get when you enter a system. If the former, then you just don't have to equip a ship with it. As far as the system radar, as he says, you can usually retreat if you don't think you can deal with the odds, and once you've played the game a bit, the radar allows you to determine if you want to 'expend' the mouse clicks to enter the system
I'm curious as to which one he was referring to, and what alternative he would suggest.