1. It's not an oversight. It's intended behaviour.
2. All tiles must have either a space turf or an asteroid turf under them.
3. When you say things like 'but as with many things on this server at the time and apparently still now, they deemed quickly finished halfway measures sufficient', despite being unaware of the continued effort it took to find the cause and a fix for space wind (a year and more, in fact), while also putting in question the decision of several developers that are far more experienced in DM than you are, it makes for a weak argument.
4. The fix is complete. The fix works. What about it is halfway done? You don't like the effect. It does not mean you get to call it "incomplete" and say baseless claims about developers in the same sentence.
I would not be opposed to the unsimulated turf/simulated turf interaction getting looked at, though it'd take some time to figure out how.