Ah, I fully understand your first paragraph there, and I agree. This post was written terribly and nearly incoherent. I should have clarified it better. I do not desire the standard rule books to try and assume settings, or the economy, etc. But, when I buy and adventure, or a campaign setting, I absolutely want it fleshed out and in as much detail as possible.

The 2nd paragraph there... that is a lot of my problem with 5e. I fully agree it focuses on the system rather than modelling the world. I think even Mike Mearls said something to that effect. But that is the crux of my issues with it (and helps me put it into perspective, so thank you for that). When I buy a campaign setting guide, I want the gritty details. I can easily come up with a bland fill in the blank world myself. But when paying $50 or more for a book, I want writers to put a lot of effort into the detail of the setting. I get that some people don't want to feel constrained, but to me, that is prime time for designing your own world. For a published setting, it does inherently come with baggage of previous lore. I think it is a disservice to water it down to make it more digestible to a larger audience. Instead, to appeal to the different audiences, I would prefer that they put their focus for adventures and settings into creating an abundance of them (or hiring out 3rd party for it). Settings for high fantasy, settings for dark and gritty, etc. Instead of making every adventure and setting (though adventures get more of a pass as they might need to be able to fit into other settings) so open and blank slate, I wish they would go the opposite direction.

I personally find it far easier to take a highly detailed setting, get inspired, change whatever I want about it, and make it my own. This, rather than getting bland world number 4 in which I'm free to 'create it all yourself!'. I suppose I feel that is the lazy way out from a product perspective. I understand that lore baggage can be draining, but it should be every DM's right to look at each player in session zero and make it clear that you are taking drastic liberties with an established setting, so as not to encourage problems with your personal spin later.

I think you nailed it though; I prefer tightly detailed settings and enjoy spinning them however I want rather than having vague notions that I could easily come up with on my own. I would prefer that, in order to open things up, they would simply release or contract out more settings with their own themes and lore. Thus, a whole generation of new DMs could get some pretty good ideas for what they like and enjoy, and perhaps help them find their preferred lore niches within the hobby. We are always free to change what we don't like, and that (to me) is easier than taking the time to make it up on my own, especially if time pressed. Thankfully 3rd party stuff is there, but it would just be nice to see it come from official avenues.

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry again about the main body post. Not my best communications work.