I never really played 1.0 other than to run screaming from the beta like a child with his hair on fire. So my view of the world SE have now is without prior knowledge of what it looked like before.
After seeing some of the replies and some pics in the thread i can see how it has changed and it does make sense.
However i would have no idea about the changes if had never come into this thread.

which still kind of points out that while there is evidence of destruction to the people who visited the land once before to a new eye it looks fairly business as usual.