Realism is good, actually

Keep in mind, everything I say here is objective truth. For I am the lord thy god, and will now sanctify you with my facts and logic and command you to shut up about realism.

TNO is trying to tell stories. Stories are series of related events. Narratives aren't particularly interesting or fun if that isn't true. If you were reading a book, enjoying the characters and story, then out of no where tricky dick gets a little too quirky and causes the nuclear fucking holocaust you probably wouldn't be too happy. Why? Because it came out of nowhere. There was no relation between the character drama and the hundred something red balloons.

For the same reason, Goering dragging his fatass across Eurasia powered by the vril present in his pure aryan soul isn't that interesting. There's no connection between a Germany struggling to pull itself together and the second coming of mongol empire. There's no reason to care about the narrative when anything can happen. Its not even interesting from a gameplay perspective! You're just battleplanning until you get nuked.

Atlantropa isn't that interesting either for the same reason. The Italy devs would've had to structure the entire narrative around the dam. And since they didn't want to, why even have the dam? If its not at all related to the narrative, whats even the point.

I've seen people crying about the most recent rework of RKM. They removed a bunch of warlords that were never going to do anything that only existed to get invaded and replaced with a RK. It added nothing to the narrative to collapse into a a trillion states, this content is better.

I liked the old TNO as much of you guys but its so dead and buried at this point. The resignation of Pacifica was 3 years ago. Move on.