[WaifuApple]

That's why I believe so, yes. The issue is that private spaces on G6 were routinely the "public spaces", or at least contained a sizable population of the community, if not all of them. Entire new villages in remote areas, entire new parts of public locations (whole districts, an entire new outside walk of Tannis led up to the militia building).

My concern is that, even when new public locations were updated to try and make them more appealing for RP, outside of these two places with particular stigmas, people largely still superceded the map with semi-public areas. Which were areas public in the right circles that could end up restricted somewhat to others without those ties. Hence... new player unfriendly. If you start letting people replace things that already exist, making new bars or what have you when there are already spaces for it, you fragment people by allowing them to make private what should ICly be accessible.

Edit: I don't mind people having places to do their private scenes, but I think that privacy shouldn't be an OOC matter. If they could reasonably have an ICly private house, I'm fine with that! But locations that should be ICly public facing should be public spaces. People may not want to mingle but they shouldn't be encouraged to not co-exist unless the space justifies it in a valid way.