Ok. Space is always so confusing to me. Let me try to explain my confusion. Say for example all the the planets in the solar system were lined up on a horizontal plane, going East to West. If you launched a probe that exited Earth at the North Pole and kept going North, wouldn’t you be “out of the solar system” in about an hour?
Nope. It would take the same amount of time that it has taken V’ger. The Solar System is very large.