Lighting is great IMHO, the apron's spots are doing a great job.
About pitch and flow, I have seen a lot of people complaining about the difficulty, especially the draining.
The game is fast, and outlanes are hungry. Plus SDTM from lock rail is happening too often.
On my side, I agree that slingshots seems to be tunes to target outlanes at defaults. Two options, make them stronger (>55) or really weaker (a friend of mine sets at 15)
Flippers tuned at soft (only bottom flippers) made me more constant on shots, and less airballs.
Two shots are still killers : the right target of left ramp and the left post of right ramp. These two are my enemies..
The game is so great when you manage to combo and flow, but can kill the whole pleasure in 5sec, without any way to avoid the drain..
Overall, it's still hard to love it , but I really like it a lot, so I will still try to set it right in order to get pleasure, and not only frustration