> From low orbit the rotation is basically unnoticeable. The ground moves under you at 400-something m/s but you yourself are flying by at 7000+ so you're just trying to spot the ground move by under you slightly slower than expected.

Yes, all of which I already said in my own top-level comment. But that's not an issue of distance, really, it's an issue of Earth's mass - the same wouldn't be true of a proportional orbit around a tiny asteroid.