Time scales in sci fi are so weird and confusing.
Obviously I'm not talking about soft sci fi, because I'm not too concerned about how humanity conquered the galaxy in 500 years when the in universe FTL method is space surfer jesus literalry surfing on spacetime itself to create ripples in the galaxy that allow for the laws of physics to be bent (actual sci fi but I cannot remember the name of it).
This is about hard sci fi settings, and how sci fi universes don't seem to understand how human progress works, with humans thousands of years from now somehow only slightly more advanced than us, or humans in the next 200 years becoming unrecognisable technological gods able to traverse all of space and time.
Sure some Sci fi is always gonna be weird, but even many more grounded or realistic settings still don't understand how timespans work.
Modern humanity is progressing faster than ever, and more has been accomplished in the last 450 years of history than the previous 12,000 years of civilisation.
Setting where 1,000 years of human progress still see humanity as just modern humanity with slightly more sci fi is weird as at modern rates of progress and exponetial growth, in 400 years we will become a type 1 civilisation, and by the year 4,000, the world energy demand could be as much as 10,000,000,000 TWH, which would see a humanity so advanced that the construction of megaprojects isn't unbelievable.
Sci fi settings either seem of overestimate or underestimate/ underutilize the time that has passed from modern day and ignore what can be achieved by a humanity with centuries of technological progress.
I don't have a strong opinion as at the end of the day it's sci fi and it's fiction, but I still wish as someone who loves looking at human movement and settlement pre recorded history, that people would appreciate the impact of scales of time, whether incredibly long or short, and implement that into sci fi, as I find that super cool.