The merge command and more plots are easily obtainable by voting.
I can definitely see how it would be easy to just keep things as they are, and that’s definitely not bad, given the command isn’t
too inaccessible to newer (or less active) players. However, I feel like the presence of larger plots would be a really great resource that could improve the experience of a new player.
I would also argue that Big Plots would not make the merge command useless either. Let’s say that the staff team are absolute dreams and add big plots that are twice the width, and twice the length of a regular plot. With respect to ordinary plots, these are “2x2” plots. The merge command let’s players get “1x2”, “1x3”, “2x3...” Any wacky combination involving an odd number. Players can also use the merge command to make a plot shaped like an L, or add a plot onto another shape if they’re playing plot Tetris (That’s a joke).
Outside of saving “some” server memory and a little bit of lag, I feel like there are no major reasons not to give some big people some big plots.