I doubt Aurora ships start at WW2 levels of automation or that every bunk always has somebody sleeping in for 8 hours. And most of the crew's likely already people watching over automated systems and maintaining them rather than manual control.
I never claimed it would. It was intended to show a trend that automation keeps increasing.
Why do you think this trend would suddenly end? With more advanced technology more and more things can be offloaded and automated.
Some Sci-fi games like Eve online even have a single person piloting a Battleship or a Titan alone...
Spaceships do have alot in common with submarines ( where even the most modern ones have shared bunks ), so I tend to imagine shared bunks are used at least on my Spaceships on <1 year missions.
Perhaps have it as a drop down option in the design screen with a corresponding adjustment to costs of that piece of kit. Can then way up having ships with small crew but expensive v larger crews to manage and train but cheaper.
That would be pretty awesome. Have the automation and reduced crew increase cost, so that it's a trade-off. Brilliant!
Remember that the crew module stats are not just only volume and mass for comfort and recreation but also food and potable drinking water life support, toilet paper
Well more advanced technology also means that such things can be miniaturized and be made more efficient. Say for example a Star Trek food replicator seems way more efficient then refrigeration of tons of food for long duration missions.