It looked like a good idea on paper but in practice, I find it gets in the way too much in combat (as well as the silly womrhole text and distance text overlapping). I'm not saying to move it all the way down, but it would be a good idea to move it more away from the center.

It would also be nice to get display options to display only the numbers without the bars.

Ya. In my 30 minutes in game just now, the distance bar managed to annoy me the most.

The HUD is too cluttered I think.

was there ever a "dashboard view" suggested?

or is it only going to be HUD on window only....

some of the blocked view issues could be fixed by simply moving most or all of the non-targetting information to the lower part of the screen, and a dash would give a reason to move them there.

I intend to keep the HUD distance bar roughly where it is by default. However: 1) I support having an option that moves it to the bottom (or something like that). 2) I intend to tone down the HUD textures a little more.. they're still too "vibrant". I think this will help with the general "clutter" feeling, when things are a little more transparent.