I think at a certain point you just need to accept that there’s limitations to some of the zones and to stop thinking too hard about it. Limsa Lominsa is obviously meant to be much bigger than what we see for example. In artwork and in stuff that’s mentioned by characters, it’s more than just this tiny collection of paths on islands and a handful of buildings, but they seem to have been limited with what can be depicted so we got what we got.

The decision to put the Baldesion Annex in the middle of the Sharlayan map instead of off to the side was an interesting one, but if we had the full size of it on the map then it would be White House Ballroom levels of awkward and oversized compared to everything else around it.

Gotta suspend your disbelief at least a little bit when it comes to scale in video games, especially MMOs.