It does have its beauty. For me it's like living is a post-apocalyptic world, with ruins and raiders speaking strange languages everywhere.
But I suppose an old world could be made even more interesting if there were events changing the status quo now and then. Cataclysmic events, terrain changes, new supergrids, random nukes. Even staying one month without being able to harvest beets would force people to change they playstyle.
So what I hate is that everything is always the same. In this game it's always day, Summer, and nature is so annoyingly static.