The stars and galaxies and even the rest of the planets were not created until day 4 so what is the point of trying to change the meaning of the first day?
No, it isn’t.
The text specifically speaks of a time before the first day, after His saying “Let light be” and before His separating light and darkness, which is reckoned as an evening and then a morning, that night and it’s day.
Likewise, there is significance to the actual word translated as create. Fine tuning is also a form of preparing.
YEC is unnecessary to a literal reading of Genesis.