Cheap way out for cities

So dumb how half of the established non - major settlements in Skyrim were turned into random mines, inns, bandit forts or straight up thin air (or destroyed by lore in the case of Helgen and Winterhold). It felt like they were trying everything they could to avoid making more unique settlements and make Skyrim feel as empty as possible. I seriously hope they don't do that with TES6 whatever the setting is.