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Yeah I think I agree with that, too. I agree with the description of CT's being far worse, but that's precisely why I always liked FF VI's more. In fact, it's why I always like FF VI's world in general. CT (and to a lesser extent I felt FF VII had this problem, too) I always sort of disliked how their entire world's basically felt like 1 main city/castle with a few random bases or settles around. There's not much of a world in CT even. FF VII is a bit better but for a world with a supposed history of foreign war it always felt like outside of Midgar and Junon the rest of the world was unbelievably undeveloped -- CT much worse in that regard.
I definitely see what you're saying here and CT's world always felt very small to me for that very reason. Personally I don't mind because of the time travel theme. You certainly don't lack for a variety of locations, from prehistoric village to floating magic kingdom to high technology/postapocalyptic wasteland and the richness of the setting comes more from the history of the world being very fleshed out because you as the player get to experience it firsthand.