I don't get why people are viewing map simplicity so negatively

However, I have a feeling of incompleteness to this patch, whether I'm confusing that with shoddy work I don't know? But I certainly hope there is more to come in regards to Masteria and "exclusive" content.

There definitely are going to be more expansions in Masteria. Unless the people behind this suddendly decide to leave Nexon like Prose did.

The first lines of the first quest clearly hint to that.

 Spoiler

.. the budget's all tied up to expansion right now.

After seeing this one, I guess it's not that high.