No.

I'm lazy and do not like typing long responses.

I feel that ships, improvements, etc. utilizing resources gives a motive to actually mine those resources, before their only use was for the mercenaries, occasional improvement or to trade to AI. And along with administration points forces you to make decisions.

For example in one game I had to make a decision between using a constructor for a relic, more duranthium to upgrade factories and mining starbases or antimatter which I did not have at that moment.

There are weapons that don't need resources to use it but it only appear in early tier. Resources requirement also add another strategic reason for you to knock down all those mining starbase instead of avoiding them. Although i still want the resources free version of weapons back since each weapons now require difference resources, it might possible that you are in position where you can't have the one you wanted and it restrict your playstyle a bit. Can't find any Antimatter nearby? Say goodbye to using Missile. Make resources free version less lethal compare to the one that need it so you could at lease have combat capable ship to counter enemy build.

I didn't like the resources pre-Crusade and always set them to rare to cut down on the hell of mining everything, and even with a rare setting I felt like there was too much of it still.

I would agree that trading constructor hell for resource gathering hell isn't that hot of a trade - either way you get a lot of miserable micro.

If this kept the AIs from cranking out bazillions of ships it might be ok but the AIs probably get relief from needing the resources.

the newest opt-in has weapons which are more expensive, and do not require resources.  I do not use them, as I like the resource options.

Well this is my opinion resources should have been in the games all along. If you could have unlimited building then it requires no thought. Now you need to think where you need your resources the most, but nobody seems to like change go figure when they improve it.

I also really enjoy the resources, and yes, on smaller map sizes, scarcities have become an issue.  There is also a nice mod, that allows shipyards to produce resource finding missions of (almost) all resources.  They are easy to research early on, and I find it to still be strategic, as a shipyard must halt other production for 1-3 resources of a specific type, and all planet-only resources cost another resource to build.

Yeah, kinda like that.

Whenever the devs come up with some new, mega-ship that can blow everything up, that's a sugar-coated pill.  Everybody loves it.  But you take something away and make the game harder, poison pill.  Everybody hates you.   But that's what you have to do if you're going to balance the game.  You can't just please everybody and make the game easier and easier, until eventually there is no challenge, no game.

Limited resources can be annoying, when taking a tech tree which requires something unattainable.  Specifically, spice and techapods.  Mods have made this easier.  Still a challenge on smaller galaxies.

As far as the basic 5 spacebound resources?  Figure them out.  They are not that tough.