It does look like minimum viable effort to stitch Horizons and Odyssey together. Personally, I'd like the choice to take the long route up the stairs.To summarize...
'We've heard that most of you want some form of ship entry and specifically not a fade to black teleport to cockpit. So we've work hard and long and..... we're going with the fade to black to cockpit.'
Par for the course, right up there with..
"We know a lot of you want ship interiors , especially since we kind of hinted at them more than once during the Kickstart phase. So we've put our best devs on it and..... no ship interiors"
Though by the time it turns up, it might have to involve a chair lift.