[Autumn]

Is it because of housing public spaces IE: Bars, intruding upon the agency of main player hubs? I can see an argument for that.

This is pretty much the only thing I want to see addressed for the most part, as I discussed in my post, I am much more open to the idea as long as public spaces such as guilds, bars etc. are outside of it, not even from just a mapper standpoint but also from the standpoint of someone who likes to roleplay in these publicly viewable spaces. I am agreeing here for the most part while sharing my viewpoints on exactly why some points don't sound right to me either.

This thread does seem to follow that opinion as well, but there are a good few people who ended up almost quitting or outright leaving the game because they couldn't find good roleplay partners who were often tucked away in the 7th hidey hole beneath Dormeho's backstreets, cool aesthetically I'll give it that, I frequented those locations from time to time, but unless it was being advertised on LFG every day it was typically pretty opaque on whether or not you should go there randomly or not.