The desert of Tatooines

ScienceDaily and a few other sites of poor repute are pointing to relativistic effects in binary systems. The stars are too light and too mutually-distant to be doing much in the way of gravity waves as seen here. What they can do, is what the Sun does to Mercury's orbit - but worse. So relates the presser.

They warp their planets' orbits to such degree there seem no planets at ALL at close range. Also, transits don't repro; because the orbits are shifting, once seen in one transit they might not transit the next time.

Planets and for that matter red and brown dwarfs that orbit WAY out from the barycentre remain unaffected by relativistic effects, which of course matter most in a Mercurial orbit or less. Hence Proxima which even has a planet of her own.

So what Tatooinic planets have been found - which are close to their barycentre, such we can even see 'em - formed similarly further out. Those planets have migrated inward.

One might ponder a metal-poor planet coming into the range of a double star, such that it once had water but then steadily loses it.

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