Given some of the podcast interviews, it appears the show-runners don’t actually care about the consistency of the scope of the world they’ve made. They have multi-orders-of-magnitude inconsistencies about the size of the empire in both number of people, number of worlds, and distances. Which can really crash the sense of conflict back into a pure fantasy-land, Star Wars style. Which, generally, Asimov really avoided. And which can undercut the themes that are driven by the grand scope.