It helps me to just think of all these games as early 20th century naval warfare sims with a fantasy space theme. We like dreadnoughts and have a hard time with extraterrestrial physics.

games are about fun, if something only adds realism for no reason it's not good game design to add it

How fast can you speed run KSP RP/RO?

> pretended to be a space sim.

When has it ever done that.

Keep in mind, I played like starting year 3

That's inaccurate, orbital periods are a thing at least for moons. It's one of those things you'd have to spend a year or two piloting an Orca to notice though.