When you upgrade surface crystal or metal extraction the upgrade button shows you the improvement in numerical form, just as any upgrade does. However when you build orbital extractors you don't get shown what the affect will be in numerical form. Is this by design because one is an upgrade and the other a physically built object, an orbital platform that is not an upgrade but a new entite?
In other words I guess the build tool tip is showing the stats for the physical 3D object rather than it's economic effect, because the tool tip was built to suite ships and such that have no economic effect?