Thanks for the feedback. Can you clarify what you mean by early game? What do you find difficult about it?
I carefully calibrated the amount of coal so that there is just barely not enough coal to use burner miners for a long time, so it is important to switch to electric miners as quickly as possible. So the difficulty is high before you switch to electric miners but that is a very short period of the game. The difficulty drops again a bit when you research filter inserters and again when you get to portable logistic robots, by which point it might be easier than the vanilla game.