Maybe a dumb question but since 2B2T (as I understand it) is a single instance of everyone modifying it to their heart's content, why does the download look like the standard biomes of a fresh minecraft map?
The map is 30Mx30M blocks so outside of the very center you'll not see that much player activity.
DonutSMP is the largest Minecraft server today, the overworld is 225,000x225,000 blocks and the map is modified wherever you look.
The server have a pretty long non-priority player queue wait time with most of ~1500 you mentioned waiting in the queue (about 2/3 of them), even hitting two days last time I read it somewhere.
> And of the players online probably half are bots which don't build.
which might be why the queue wait time went insane over the recent years.
People sprawl far to prevent PvP encounters.