Does the "bar" at the incumbator intentionally not move until you reset?
It does, just very, veeeery slowly, mainly because 1cm³/sec is absolutely miniscule compared to 1m³. To be fair, you *could* theoretically wait 139 hours to travel 0.5m³ at this rate, buuut you might be better off resetting and getting the × STR × 1000 travel speed perk
If it helps, reset is designed to be not inconvenient in the game (and more as encouragement to try new builds), and there's a lot of QoL shortcuts that get unlocked as you progress, in the sense that you should be able to get back to where you were pre-reset in about 5 minutes max :)