(Didn't realize roads were so popular before doing a quick search on the subreddit but here goes)
I was thinking how roads are nice to use when you've just repaired them. It's rewarding to repair them because it gives you a new way to traverse terrain that you've already walked through before (also you can get some speed), but doesn't it become kind of boring to drive on them after a while? It even seems to oppose the main game mechanic, which is traversing difficult terrain, making these microchoices to path-find your way through.
So I started considering if it would be fun to have, instead of roads, huge desert-like areas surrounding the main areas of the game (where you actual