That sums up my thoughts on the matter. Having random NPCs who provide exposition just makes the world feel so much more alive. I can't recall if VNOG had this, but MNOLG2 suffered from a major lack of fast travel. Especially when you're going back and forth across the island, you don't want to just sit there as Hahli jogs across one empty landscape to another. If you don't like seeing hahli jogging, seeing hewkii srolling across miles and miles of convoluted Voya-Nui landscape just to give Garan his ice-metal-plates is pure torture. At least with VNOG, you could use the move cheat. Granted, you pretty much HAD to get on google to discover cheats in the first place, but it's there.