Yes, but EGG could have written an interesting village, not one that is composed of 200 0-level farmers (each of them described!) and 4-5 characters that can really add something.
T1-4 sucks!
And that isn't because after all that time waiting for it, it was good but the expectations were greater; I wasn't born back then, and if I were, there would be no expectation, since T1 sucks even more.