This question is funny considering the past. Much of the gameplay was an inconvenience to the devs so they cut the features or dumbed them down. Some of the dumbing down took away much of the gameplay. Their logic using the "impediment to gameplay" just sounds like putting your foot in your mouth expecting no one to notice it was there before. Why bother asking? They devs will do as they please. Or they actually have decided to shrink the galaxy knowing it's wasted space for a pew-pew game and just want to patronize their customers by asking.