Perhaps, though, erosion effects from wind may be affecting the general look of landscapes. Especially for low-gravity planets. Although with snow and ice, weird landscapes are quite possible even at 1 g:
Dr K .Ross, impressive knowledge, in some way she reminds me of the lady in the Adams family And that is certainly not ment to be rude or negative, on the contrary!
All in all it makes more sense...they basically have a skeleton crew working on this. Let's get those want ads up frontier, more heads and more fingers...MOAR crunch!
Where is water in elite dangerous it's either found in chunks or nowhere, queue the x-files music!