My brain isn't braining rn so I can't give amy suggestions. I just want to say, I really missed the feeling of ARR zones. They feel alive, and it's like the zone is created for itself first, rather than created for msq quests if that makes amy sense. We get settlements, explorable building, non quest giver npc who creates immersion. That sort of things.

But anyway, I think ever since they introduce flying mechanic, the area have been getting bigger and bigger but also empty. I think if they make it smaller, have more population, it could also introduce new(ish) interesting type of FATE (i.e defending settlements)