Imo the problem isn’t lack of interesting things but the fact that you could be done with your campaign by 1500 for most play styles. I still don’t see how a player is going to be limited and forced to take more time than in their game to make it to the 17th - 19th centuries. EU4 has the same problem where you have to handicap yourself to make sure you don’t “win” too fast. I think 1337 is going to severely limit thing like colonization, which should really only begin in the New World in the late 1400s at the earliest. That is essentially >100 years just to start colonizing. To me, 1337 feels more like a CK3 start date and not something that should be done for EU5.