The scale of the map in Scarlet and Violet is all wrong. None of the "places" are big enough. I blame the retarded legendary you ride on. If you weren't able to instantly scale mountains and run at 60mph, the process of traveling through forest or up a mountain would actually be engrossing. If you just had a bicycle, the map could be designed so that you actually have to think about where you're going and how to get there. But instead they just made the whole map a toy diorama and gave you a kaiju monster to stomp all over it with. The paraglider in botw was bad enough for this shit, lazy game designers like game freak make it even worse and drain all the adventure out of traveling. Not saying the map needs to be "bigger"; the player needs to be "smaller", both literally and in their movement speed.