Having been to every corner of Eorzea as it currently exists, I would submit that it is actually quite beautiful. It's like wandering in the woods in Oregon, or the Grand Canyon.

I think there are people nowadays who will not be happy with a game unless there are floating rocks and Phazon deposits a la Metroid in every corner of a given planet. I, for one, find the maps to be simply lovely to wander.

In all honesty, I really dread Coerthas being taken apart. Favorite zone ever. ; ; I've got a little under a gig of screenshots of Coerthas alone on my desktop PC, it reminds me much of Oregon it's painful.

(o.- ) Honestly, at this point I think people are complaining for the sake of complaint. Some people seem to derive pleasure from snarling and snapping, merited or not. I cannot fathom, in any way, how XI's zones were superior to those of XIV. There were more of them, to be sure, but there's no greater degree of variety zone to zone than exists in XIV. I suppose I'm alone in this, though.

(>>) TL;DR: You be trippin' on shrooms if you find XIV's landscaping to be ugly.