[mistercow]

But the intuition based on the constant gravity assumption correctly illustrates the point, and adding in the more complicated picture of non-constant gravity creates new terms that exactly cancel out to give the same answer. Why would you talk against intuitions that work correctly?

And to be clear, building intuitions that fail at certain scales is still a useful and important thing to do. But you haven't shown a scale where these intuitions fail. That's not insightful, it's just throwing smoke bombs for no reason.