In Star Citizen, travel speed, celestial object size, and human size were not all scaled in a way that retains a 1:1 relationship with reality. Your analogy would make more sense if my room were 10% of its original size and I were 50% of my original size.
Roberts states that they "won't go fully accurate" because "that would be boring" when referring to the physical size of systems. Why would he say that if the systems were 1:1 with reality?
This dirty homeless person says that the planets "won't be quite life sized". Again, why would he say that if the relationship between the size of a person with the size of a planet retained a 1:1 ratio?