In some cases, you have to squeeze into or through an area that isn't as wide as the space you take up. You can squeeze through or into a space that is at least half as wide as your normal space. While squeezing, you move at half your speed and are considered to have the entangled condition.
You are ensnared. Being entangled impedes your movement but does not entirely prevent you from moving unless the bonds are anchored to an immobile object or tethered by an opposing force. You move at half speed, you cannot run or charge, and you take a -2 penalty to your AC, attack rolls, Reflex saving throws, initiative checks, and Dexterity-based skill and ability checks.
While one would not want to fight from within such corridors as a large creature, navigating them is uncomfortable but possible.
This may also help.
RATFOLK BELT (WORN)
Ysoki are skilled at negotiating the cramped corridors of a starship or the access tunnels in a sprawling metropolis, but even the smallest ysoki sometimes encounter openings too small to enter. While wearing a ratfolk belt, you can move through an area as small as one-quarter your space without squeezing or one-eighth your space when squeezing. A ratfolk belt is made of stretchable nylon webbing, and it often includes clips for tools or weapons.
Even the massive morlamaw would be able to effortlessly move through only a 2.5-foot space while wearing this item, or 1.25-foot space while squeezing!
I like to think that "large access and accomodations" is at least as common in Starfinder as handicap access and accommodation is in real life.
Two standard humanoid people CAN pass each other in a 5-foot wide hallway though...
You're only limited to the grid for the purposes of managing the abstractions of combat, and even then, two standard humanoid people could still pass each other in a 5-foot wide hallway if both were fine with it (you just can't stop in the same space).
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The real problem comes from the fact that those maps never should have had 5 foot corridors. If you can't design a ship to allow for at least two standard humanoid crew members to pass each other in the corridors...don't design ships. These are corridors, not ductwork or maintenance crawlspaces.
It's simply a continuation of issues with maps (even through all of Pathfinder) being really undersized. Call the squares 10 feet, and it'll cause a lot less headaches.
5' corridors and hallways exist in real world ships and homes. People pass each other just fine in them.
Humanoids aren’t going to build wastefully large ships just in case big races want to hitch a ride, anymore than a cruise ship is going to post instructions in the language of every people that has ever set sail. There’s no reason for generic ships serving the core races to build large, and good reasons not to.
If we get a Skyfire ship that expects dragonkin crew but only has 5’ corridors you’ll have room to complain. But we aren’t there yet.
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They certainly do. But they also aren't in a setting filled with multiple races that take up 10' squares by default, all of whom are spacefaring races in numbers enough to matter.
Design guidelines and philosophies would reflect that. The maps need to reflect that as well.
The vast majority of large races are NOT 10 feet wide. Medium races are NOT 5 feet wide.
The space a creature controls in combat is not the same as their physical dimensions!
You're making a mountain out of an anthill here.
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Probably. I've always felt that far too many AP maps were postage stamp sized. It's something I'd like to not see continue in Starfinder. It's always been a sore spot for me.
Well, they kind of have to be.
If they were much larger, they wouldn't fit on peoples' tables.
Take a map that is 120 squares across, for example. That's not much in the real world, only 600 feet. However, as a map sized for most Medium minis, that is at least 120 inches, or ten feet across!
A map of that size would cost an exorbitant amount of money for Paizo to mass produce. What's more, it would cost me between $100 to print at a print shop, or ~$30 to tile print at home (not counting the glue/tape and trouble of puzzling the damned thing back together).
Most people don't want to spend that kind of money and go through that kind of trouble for a map they are likely only to use once, exceptions abound. I could get two or three new books for that price!
Drawing out such a large map can also headache inducing, either slowing the game down if done on the sport, or risking permanent stains on expensive place mats if drawn in advance.
Smaller maps are something of a necessity. They are cheaper; and easier to draw, transport, and use--which counts for a whole hell of a lot to your average gamer.