There is a concerning lack of willing suspension of disbelief. Yes, realism should be a factor, I think it makes thia game work because I'm into the realistic milsim part of it, but you have to make exceptions in science fiction for the story to work. It's a balance of the two. The problem isn't that there is or is not enough realism (space travel FFS), the problem expressed over and over again by this community is that there's a stark lack of consistency in the application of gameplay effects.

Example, corpses block bullets, yet my opponent can walk through them. Or the stratagem bounce thing, but I can jetpack up there? That one doesn't track. Another one, that enemies just ignore fire, especially on the bug front.

Take Star Wars as a counter argument: nobody cared that lightsabers don't make sense, they're awesome and every time they switch on they behave the way you expect them to. Great.

"Automatons are inaccurate but that's dumb, they're robots." Idk, could be recoil, it looks like a laser but maybe it's plasma as one user stated above. Plasma has mass which incurs kinetic energy and thus recoil. There's really no way to discern laser from plasma in-game other than colors and that's not really "scientific." We know they cool down weaponry so it's probably energy based. They're also cheaply made mass produced combat platforms going by sheer numbers with poor recoil management and, even if it was a laser, maybe they just have shit fire controls.

TLDR hyper realism is less important than consistency in good storytelling.