I'm going to quickly defend this level before I rip it up:

I think that all things considered, it is REALLY funny to do contest bait like this where you just call back to all the previous gauntlet entries as if to cap off the experience. It would actually masterfully recontextualize all the slop realism as a simulation of some kind, which would make a lot of sense and go to explaining why it sucks.

The issue is that it tried to do this while not actually having all of the likely winners, and so the only level it calls back to that even has a chance is Planispheres. Moreover, it does the non-simulated rigging in the exact same style as the rest of the realism slop, which does not actually aid in the recontextualizing at all. Even still, I really can't help but be fascinated by the attempt, it's certainly really bold and even though I hate this level as an experience the context elevates it a lot for me.