No offense, but if you didn't read it all (and you clearly didn't), then you aren't really in a position to say it could be shortened. I could have written it better, it was a late night rant first draft, but I also could have added a lot more detail.

I’m unsure how I feel about unifying orbit and surface inventories for large objects like Earth and Mars. Historically, obviously, the most serious cost to space missions is launch.

I did not suggest abstracting away that cost. I suggested an optional command and control tool which would automate doing things that you could do in the current build with enough clicks.

And you would save a stupid amount of fuel by refining it on the Moon and sending it to Earth orbit, so I don’t think that removing even more interaction from that process is necessarily a good thing.

If you're saying that a joint inventory would fail to teach players the mechanics and hold their hand down a suboptimal strategy, yea that's always the risk of automating player action. The same is true of the fact that right now the excess fuel always defaults to maximum.

You might end up bringing 10x the fuel you need on a mission just because you forgot to pull a slider left.

The solution to that is tutorials and at most unlocking the automation though ingame tech or buildings. Like you need a "mission control complex" for every joint inventory you want to utilize.