The wormhole requiring an entire cycle is the only thing that felt excessive. I get you don’t want it to be a town portal but 6 months doesn’t achieve the same effect? An in-game month can take awhile if you’re spending a lot of times in menus and combat: an in-game year can be hours of real-time to wait for the thing to activate. If you’re just flying around exploring on sped up time, eh, I guess it’s not that long but getting a new-fangled device and waiting a year to use it feels off on its surface.
Was thinking the same, this is probably the only thing in the update I'm not going starry eyed over, 6 months feels more balanced.
Btw I have a suggestion for the Abyss Alex, make the music fade out as you enter into it and replace with silence, maybe with an occasional distant ambient sound, it's the perfect ground for some creepy environment ambience stuff.