I am trying to think of an analogy.

Drop a feather and a steel pellet in a vacuum and they both drop at the same accelleration.
As the feather hits the mesosphere or wherever, it starts to hit air molecules, it slows while the
pellet with low surface area keeps falling until it is hitting much denser air and it burns up
in re-entry like a meteorite.

Also the air is rotating around the same speed as the planet rotation, so falling into the earths gravity
is necessarily a flat glide slope. Parachutes will glide around the earth from where they started falling.

NO ?