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Personally, I don't like hard sci-fi. For me, reading is about imagination. It's about entering another world. I don't really care if it's implausible, or unlikely. All that matters is that I can suspend disbelief. If I can do that, then I don't care about warp drives and ups and downs in space ships, their layout, the fuel they burn, and so on and so forth.
I don't even know why such details have to appear in a story. If they're not integral to the story (which is about the "people") then they should be left out.
A lot of science fiction written today seems to have forgotten the point. It's fiction.
The science fiction writers I admire: John Wyndam, Christopher Priest, Robert Silverberg (and others) can be shot down on a hundred points.
Who cares?
Agatha Christie wrote seventy-odd novels about murders that are entirely implausible. The people who read them don't care. It's all about the atmosphere, the tone, the style, the feeling.
I can read a very much more plausible Patricia Cornwell (which is akin to what is happening in science fiction) and it is about as interesting as a teaspoon.
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