Cool idea. But the engineering seems fixated on mechanically hooking everything together with heavy frameworks, even having cargo building where arriving pods get racked.

Turns out space is big; things don't go anywhere if you just put them nearby. So no need to have buildings to store them.

And thousands of independently-operating solar cells would work as well as a big rigid frame. Why not have each cell in a swarm beam its energy to a single large transmission facility? No need to wire-and-bolt them together.

Probably its improvements in compute power that made this inconceivable decades ago. But now it seems obvious.