I don't find any of the mechanics that caused your demise to be absurd.

If I had been in your shoes, and used console commands to get out of my situation. I would have lost interest almost immediately in that character and started over.

There are consequences to dying w/ out a back up ship ready in the wings. There are consequences for going too far beyond your last spawn point.

Console commands remove those consequences.

While you might be fine with going into "god mode" to retrieve your gear I wouldn't have been (fine with it).

You've taken a memorable moment in your characters journey and trivialized it.