These people are incompetent if they couldn’t think to have all of these expository scenes take place on the same planet. Apparently unity of composition is a concept none of them are familiar with.
Obviously you’ve never see a movie where a team comes together. They often start with people spread across different continents. That’s a pretty common thing.
Whether it’s done well in RO or not is a different question, but calling it an incompetent idea is pure rubbish.