Quote Originally Posted by Gula View Post
I believe they're specifically referring to the aesthetics. The ARR dungeons are all terribly dreary and ugly places. Like the actual horror hole known as Haukke Manor.
The aesthetics for those dungeons were inherited from how they were created. SE built most of the 1.X dungeons by assembling a bunch of generic cave tunnel and cave room pieces and then decorating them with various door, wall and object sets. You are in several cases going through copies of the exact same room with different furniture.