Like I get that it's something, but 5 minutes accounts for almost no changes in the scope of an 8 hour gaming session for example.

Just had a thing where our world bugged out and all the terrain reset to default position. While googling about it, found someone mentioning how there is a '.old' backup save... go to check for it, its only 5 minutes before the most recent save so not sure how that helps.

I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoyed that our 100+ hours of progress is just ruined from this issue.

So yeah I recommend not relying on terraforming as a functioning factor to your bases. Could just reset one day :D