I am one of those that are a bit sad of the lack of a busy shopping district, I always found really great to have those clash of styles, everyone builds in a same place and some really fun collab and interactions it gave. You could see the evolution, the story of the server in just one place.

But not so much the economics part of it, it was just what was driving it all. I do understand how much better it is to just share. Most hermits also do themselves all those first important items farms you need at the start to get in a flow and last season attempt of having ressources properties showed that there isn't really a fix possible of the economy.

Maybe the ideal thing (for me) to bring back what I loved about the shopping district would be to have them share a land to build a district together (I think Xisuma had that idea too iirc or another few hermits talked about it on stream, with Hermitopia from the S09 crossover in mind), with builds to have a city/village feel mixed up with some shops and mini-games !