I find it comical that a ton of players complain enough is enough with the scenery, fix the sim, but at the same time you have a bunch of people complaining about graphics (clouds, photogrammetry, etc.)
I personally wish I could lower some details and improve loading/draw distance. I’ve been recently exploring Southern Russia/Georgia/Azerbaijan which has really simple building models but seems to render smoothly - I love traveling town to town and seeing how they are laid/out planned and maybe what types of industry might exist there based on geography rather than photorealism in each building.
The sim is definitely not a mess - I think uneven and marginally stable are better descriptors.