I also came to the conclusion during the playtesting that this "comical" approach was so much better. I also had a "realistic-ish" one in mind but the physics part was always a bit off.
I'm glad you enjoyed it :) They were originally planned to be as items and I will be adding them and a few more in the coming updates. And I'm aware of the Xray flipping like hell when using weird shaped objects and im looking into ways to fix it