Lol. Perhaps. Or perhaps one might gain some trust from it. The “international date line” represents a time, not any spacial dimension. While some practical considerations are involved in its placement, its placement is largely arbitrary. That is to say that we could decide to place it somewhere else and make a few other decisions that aren’t primarily tied to any particular geological or cosmological reality and the only change would be getting used to the new placements, no practical effect really on navigation or anything else. It serves some important functions but none which makes it being “straight” critical. The main reason it “zigs” like that is because the dateline is drawn to not cross land, and to not divide countries or land mass groups. If the line traveled “straight” like longitude or latitude lines one example is that it could intersect an island chain or country- people living on one island might be able to swim to another nearby but find the date switching between them
“Doesn’t that already happen with time zones, which do cross land?” Well, it can. It can be midnight on a Tuesday in one area and 1am on Wednesday in another. A very large country may have many hours difference between its furthest two points- but it isn’t quite the same thing. Say that you live 10 minutes from the border of time zones and drive across into the next date- well, if you turn around and head home, you’ll arrive and it will be the date as when you left. If you spend an hour in the next timezone over, when you return home it will be the next day, and your watch would show the next day without need for correction, and had you spent an hour in your time zone it would be the next day by then anyway right? So there isn’t really much room confusion. The switch between days happens at 12am (2400 hours) local time regardless of where you are, and for most of history and into the modern age it generally isn’t a practical concern that you might lose a day crossing a few time zones,
Or gain a day. Time zones are also largely arbitrary but loosely define a day by daylight in most places at most times. The international dateline doesn’t define a day strictly by time, it serves as basically a geographical mathematical operator to balance an equation.
So the fact they at least drew it in a way to hopefully minimize complications is perhaps a good thing.
What’s more… this might make trust issues worse…
The maps and gloves you are used to are very wrong. There are usually issues of scale and such, and maps are “wrong” in that they represent a sphere “flattened out,” meaning that what you see is a representation presented for understanding- when it comes to plotting courses and such on most maps, there are usually various rules and tricks to it because you see a flat space but it isn’t flat. Travel in a “straight line” on most maps will not take you “straight,” if you want to go dead south on the map you generally do not set your heading as dead south on a compass (depending on the type of map being used…) because you need to travel a path that is an ark to follow a straight line. It gets all geometry complicated and produces some less than intuitive solutions at times. This is in large part why being a navigator isn’t just as simple as being able to look at a map and draw a line from one place to another on it and say: “go that way.”
It is also the case that the “globe” is not a sphere. Firstly it is oblong. Secondly it or not perfectly level. The globe has topography and the earth is thicker at some points and thinner at others, longer some places than others. Higher or lower. When you see those curved lines on a map or globe and think “ahhh. That’s realistic. That represents a globe!” They aren’t “correct.” The lines would generally be far more jagged since they follow along with the changes in the earths topography. If you ever thought “how hard is it to make a map” or “why are explorers always getting lost” or “why did these ancient guys take so long to figure out how to get to this place?” Asides logistics, a big reason is that it isn’t as simple as drawing what you see.
So the fact they at least drew it in a way to hopefully minimize complications is perhaps a good thing.
What’s more… this might make trust issues worse…