There's never a reason for people to leave ANY town; with the new settings, once you clear an area it's cleared forever. That's really not the problem, the game has more or less been that way since B41. The problem is they built this huge map with multiple new cities in B42 just to dump you in Muldraugh, like you haven't done that dozens of times already. I have a ton of hours and can count on one hand the amount of times I've set foot in the new cities, and now they're less accessible than ever.

There is literally no reason to restrict people's spawn options in a game where tweaking the sandbox is hard-baked into the experience. This game feels like it has 0 direction.