"Realistic" and "modern" is my vibe too! With the exception of the roof set in that pack I found a lot of the pieces to be useful for that style but that's so subjective and honestly, my take might be weighted simply by how much I loved that new brick wall set and how useful a few of those temple pieces are!
A more "general" new world/North American building set would be such a welcome addition to the game! It's been a while since we got anything in that realm so I do think we're do! Closest, I think, would be the Conservation Pack maybe? And that was over a year ago.
I'm just not willing to say "eh, Frontier's gonna go on cruise control" from here on out because the last pack had some "filler" species. The Arid pack still gave us two highly requested critters and two animals that are zoo essentials. I think it was a bit of a misfire in terms of how much (and what type of) chatter it would create, TBH, but there was definitely a plan with thought and effort behind it! They weren't "coasting" or anything. The quality was still really solid.
And the free update last time was... Not the best. But it did offer new things for content creators (that have been used quite a bit, by folks frankly!) and it's not like it's the first time the community didn't clamor for all the free update content (remember height maps?)... They can't win every time and it's not fair to expect them to either.
Anyway, this is all to say that I agree. I think this game has so much more life in it than a lot of folks are giving it (and Frontier) credit for. Maybe it's me being optmistic or whatever but I think we'll be seeing some additions to the game that let folks really unleash their creativity (both via DLC and free update) before it ends. The more they can "future proof" the game and hand the reins over to the community before they stop development the longer the game will last.
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