if you want to cut corners then you miss the purpose of the mod.you haven,t been to the outer worlds yet.
Its not my intention to cut the corners but this "corner" is over 300k long with nothing in between. Im not lazy or something i love to explore but this is meaningless in MP. Make perfect sence in SP but in MP allmost reprezent a barier, a place where you have to decide to go. Like you said
vast open space for things to be put maybe in the future.
I agree with you 100% there is enormous piece of space. If the intention was to represent the distance that otherwise exists in our world, I support that intention. However, in MP it's just a transit that takes me half an hour to complete while at the other end there are angry customs officials and you have to run for your life.
Maybe that future you mentioned is now