I’ve made a few games with accurate phsycis for spaceships. It always ends up with a lot of players complaining about not being able to control them. The way I usually handle this is having a match speed button or other form of dampening, but it’s still not enough for some players.

Starfield made spaceships behave like aircraft. That’s the other method you see often. It makes more sense to us humans who have only experienced life on earth. It’s why Star Wars does it, even though a person doesn’t even have to control it.

I don’t think either option is “wrong.” I do personally prefer the former, but that’s from someone with hundreds of hours in KSP and many other space sims. For a mass market game, the airplane model is probably the correct choice, at least as a default. I would love a toggle to change modes though.