Thanks for your answer, you’ve pointed out many of my own thoughts and observations.
Regarding building limit - I had a moderately big base on official for about 3 years straight, created it while playing solo, all buildings were created with utmost precision and style - I was very proud of it, especially that after much effort and my development as a player, it evolved from cubic, sandstone monstrosity into something with much finesse - but after a while I noticed, that only thing I do is refreshing it. Same goes for most of those huge bases/castles - they are mostly empty, standing there just because players don’t have a heart to tear them down. Not to mention those obvious eyesores with endless pathways or spammed foundations. I can’t say how big was my base, but I think, that it could be possible to set some sort of limitations for players, just like with followers - bigger the clan, more building pieces you can place. 5000 or maybe even 10000 pieces should be more than enough for anyone to fulfill his/hers creativity needs. I noticed once some lad bragging in the chat about having over 300k of used building pieces - and it was a solo player (not even in a clan) - I gave up scanning the map after finding 4 of his “castles” - only one wasn’t empty (workstations and thralls inside). My point is - if someone would like to construct big, without taking much care about others - he should just play “offline” mode - like you said, official servers are for everybody and I don’t see this game going anywhere, when you are hit in the face with enormous bases starting from 2/3 map line…