A world that was made by a god or godlike entity (i.e. most D&D worlds) will always feel artificial. And the Great Wheel and it's over-obsession with alignment and symmetry doesn't feel any less artificial.
Different strokes. To me, the Great Wheel looks much more like something mortal sages would have come up with to explain the universe.
Why? Because it's more complicated? Real world scholars and theologians have speculated about both simple and complex cosmologies. The Great Wheel being more complex doesn't make it more realistic.
It's already there. Pages 43-44 of the DMG deal with cosmologies of various sorts and some advice on how to make one.
It does to me. Again, different strokes. You're not going to convince me.
Whether or not something is more realistic can be proven. If you're saying one cosmology is more realistic because it's complicated, that statement can be very easily debunked by bringing up real world cosmologies that are just as simple as/much simpler than the Great Wheel.
Nah, the Great Wheel just wastes page space, not oxygen.
I think that maybe it's Elon Musk makes Great Wheels.
They're not saying it is more realistic, they're saying it feels, to them, more plausible.
