>>48052863I prefer the Open World approach too, but it was poorly done in SWSH.
The Wild Area was an empty map, with walls around that won't let you do anything other than walking and running and fighting random Pokémon.
Didn't have any point of interests nor that much of hidden stuff, just a void empty land.
I hope that Arceus corrects these mistakes, because until now, confronted to the Wild Area, looks surely 90% better.