I still keep hating the death screen.
I think that even if you are totally doomed, sub to the bottom of the sea, nothing else you can do, I would prefer to hit ESC and leave the game.
I find extremely distasteful that death screen popping up in my face when I still think there's hope.
Another issue is the death screen popping-up when you're away from computer or in high time-compression. You have no idea what happened, and theres no info on how did you die.
But seems like Im alone on this one...