My point is that we DID have this, now we don't.
But as your screenshot shows, it looked silly as it wasn't actually implemented. I've got some screenshots of a planetary base going through the rings of a planet, and that looks bad too.
It's even worse when you come in from the rings, as the ship doesn't know whether to use the rings or the planet as the frame of reference, and it easily gets confused (swapping between them). And of course, you'd have asteroids hitting the surface and causing all sorts of damage.
So no, it was never implemented.
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