Reality
The old resort and design is an interconnected near cyclopean monolith of five years making.
It is somewhere around 12.000 renders, 40.000+ lines of dialogue and a lot of code.
To talk of changing it in any significant manner is ignorance.
The parts of the entity are so vast that any coherent change takes years.
(as repeatedly proven)
So the old resort will be tinkered with, as it always has been, incremental and contineous.
Same for the game's way to do things.
It will become nicer, sure, this game has always kept itself updated, but it will be a monolith before and after, it will not change its core nature.
The actual take it or leave it
Also the major challenge or need for change is not that it is a sandbox, nor its way to do things nor its writing.
All of that are features and people can live with them or go somewhere else.
Actual change
The actual challenge is that the early design was too expensive and came with too many (marginal) girls.
This made it rerun 2017, year after year, in an attempt to "content it up".
2021 Redesign, gui upgrades, lab, island and environments, staff, remakes, rise of the specials are the chosen solutions.
That is where the future is and the last year we have seen the early contours of it start to take form.
Edit : Hey, 3 reactions to . placeholder, can I do that for the fan art too and save time? Faye can be (OO)