Does anyone else find SoA kind of immersion/lore breaking?

[Xerius]

One thing I haven't been able to wrap my mind around since pretty much the introduction of Seekers of Adoulin is the fact that this small group of people who can't even seem to keep themselves fed can create armor and weapons that put the most legendary weapons from Quon, Mindartia and Aht Urgan to shame.

Now I'm not complaining about the ilvl system in general I can conceive of why it's needed just the matter of fact that as adventurer's we've been to foreign shores, battled ancient demi-gods, battled ancient gods, saved the world from a parallel dimension, fought demons from a different dimension, saved the past and all of that has been usurped by a bunch of people that can't even colonize their own continent.

I'm assuming that the justification is that since they live in such a harsh environment they need better weapons/armor to survive but it just doesn't make much sense to me.

[Rekin]

Another bothersome thing is why haven't the nations from the mainland haven't checked out this place? They were all over the place before in ToAU but not even a peep now?

[Metaking]

apparently before the warp things it was a 3 month travel by boat with a decent % chance of horrible death by Mustakrakish. also the middle lands have spies there now, look at the vegetable vegetable quest line