But if you were bird, you could fly over the mountain. Then you could get there much faster, even though it was still a long way. Now if you were a mole, you could dig a hole straight under the mountain. It is like that mole digging his hole. He doesn't have to go as far, but it takes an awful lot of work to dig the hole.
Most starships are too small to carry wormhole engines.
Now Void Hopper is more like the bird. A regular gyroscope is like a big heavy wheel that spins. It tries very hard to stay in the same place. But our probability gyroscopes spin inside-out. They try very hard to go someplace else that they would rather be.