It's just so funny how PO, as the oldest hub, is held up as one of the most functional and pleasingly laid out locations.
And now it's going to be de-improved
As i said before PO is very small, it has no hangers, no cargo deck, no refinery, no docking ports, no food or shopping area, all it had was a place to spawn, a place for the ASOP's, a few small shops and some landing pads.
It had 4 self contained section's duplicating that, Strut A, B, C and D.
To accommodate all that the new space stations have they are very much larger, they are far too big to move around in without elevators, you see if you spawn your ship it might be in a hanger that's 5KM away from the ASOP's, the refinery might be 10 KM away from your hanger, that's 2X the distance as PO is long, its why they have elevators, its those elevators that people find a pain, but they are necessary.
Its only because PO is so small it doesn't need them, but that also makes PO too small to have anything to make it a destination, cargoing, refining ecte... its also too small to accommodate the VAST ships that are coming online, like the Hull-C.
So its got to go.