One of the things that is awkward to portray without hyperdescribing everything is the number of what I would describe as “little touches” of design to make life that little bit more effortless prevalent in the Imperial culture sphere. The equivalents of this sort of thing:
Partly as a result of the general good-enough-isn’t mentality, but also just because people exist in a very old civilization that’s had a lot of time to spend on getting things just right.