Could someone go into that 12-page GAF thread about the FF7 remake and tell them it's based on a misquote? Kitase just said that because HD content is more work to produce, they have to be more selective about what they focus on, rather than just trying to do everything like they used to, and so since
for this particular game they were heavily focused on the story, and due to the nature of the story, towns were
one example of a "not the core focus" element that had to be condensed. He wasn't saying there was something special about towns specifically that made them super-hard to make in HD.