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Another one since I didn't want to crowd the OP, but I also really dislike the whole "why does every city only have 3 buildings/5 people living in them".
The point of the games isn't to be some hyper realistic open world style game with hundreds and hundreds of NPCs in each town wandering around, the towns are basic representations of what they're supposed to be depicting in order to establish the setting and mood of the area then you move on. Every single piece of animation from the Ashnime to the one offs like Origins/Generations/Twilight Wings/Evolutions prove that.