Now you are talking nonsense.
The same planets that existed before no longer exist. The wildly unbelievable canyons have disappeared. I feel it for you.
That does not mean that there are not unique things to be discovered, nor does it stop circumnavigation nor the uniqueness - unless you are talking about hairballs the old tech spat out - aberrations that you may have enjoyed but are unrealistic. That tech is not suitable for the game going forward. There are 20k high mountain ranges, with debris fields, and erosion features. Beautiful planets to be traversed that you can get out of your SRV and still enjoy fidelity. There are now planets where you can move from Ice covered caps, to different geologically active regions, to flat plains, to isolated mountain ranges, volcanos...
There are canyons, as pointed out by others in this thread, and some of your hooning coleagues admit that are useful for canyon racing. Hooning has lost it's playground but has to adapt to what is there, or what? We get FDev to break the new tech just for you?
Again, failure to understand.
Hooning cannot 'adapt', because the
required terrain is gone. 'Canyon running' is not the same thing. Racing is not the same thing. No 'hooning colleagues' have suggested in this thread, or anywhere else, that the new terrain is any good for it. It's irrelevant whether you considered the terrain
required as an aberration. Without it, the playstyle cannot exist.
There is no relevancy to 'hooning' for getting out in an SRV, or walking around, or any of the other fluff that you can go and look at. People who enjoyed that playstyle are sad about not being able to do it, because it was challenging, and it was fun.
You just keep waffling on, but what's genuinely sad about your vacuous pontificating is that you have absolutely no idea what's lost, and are basically applauding the loss of gameplay for a community for no reason other than your own personal feelings that that terrain was 'wrong' because it didn't have features you like.
I understand just fine that most folks think hooning's pointless, but that doesn't mean that
they necessarily agree it should be removed from the game. You though appear to be happy with people losing gameplay and challenge just because it offended your superficial sensibilities.
I'm glad you have stuff you like in game, and it's good there's new content for folks to enjoy. Some of the new terrain does
look decent, even if it's crap to fly around. It's just a shame though that some of us had to lose what we enjoyed with the changes, but I wouldn't advocate taking away stuff from anyone else.
That's why it's an even bigger shame that you keep going on about how we're wrong to want what we had, based on absolutely nothing than your own self-righteous guff. Nobody expects FDev to break the game. But they broke it badly anyway, and they completely removed the bit that enabled fun with the flight model at its most challenging. In a game about flying space ships - that's pretty pathetic imo.
. Maybe I’m worse than average at pattern recognition. There are quite a few blatant tiling issues in EDO, but in many of the images posted the repetition is subtle enough that I probably wouldn’t notice it a game setting, when I’m going about my business rather than just staring at the screen. Unless I keep looking at this thread and get mad about stuff that I wouldn’t otherwise have been mad about. 
so I come back to a formula that has served me well for years:
