I agree with this. 3.0 really bugged me how all of the big cities seemed like toy towns with massive 6 story apartments and barely anything else. Would also love to see actual suburbs surrounding cities like that so they don’t feel like a kids lego set, if nelson chooses to attempt to make large cities. I would also be a fan of large spaces between locations with small but still notable areas like huts or camping grounds scattered between them, and more things that arent on maps.
From what I’ve read areas between cities are rarely, if at all, empty. In World War Z (the book, not the godforsaken movie), it was described that clearing urban areas was exceptionally difficult due to how difficult establishing a perimeter was as the most sought after prewar real estate was the area in between two existing cities, a concept referred to as “in-fill.” Based on this, it would be interesting to see a map almost completely made up of suburbs with large metropolitan areas and certain isolated areas such as parks and nature preserves.