Items sitting loose in space is weird

[spectria.limina]

TL;DR

Provide some explanation why you can't put a chest or train track on a space platform because of low gravity, but you can leave items on the platform surface and they just sit there.

What?

I don't have any specific ideas, and I'm not suggesting changing it because it's clearly a balancing thing to force actual dumping to happen into empty space. But it feels like an extremely flimsy excuse like this.

Why?

Why are there Eewoks on Endor's moon?

[computeraddict]

The platform is a highly polarized electret to enable neutrally charged small items to stick to it.