Hex Maps Need Empty Rooms

When I was first reading The Dark of Hot Springs Island , one of the things that struck me was that the density of points of interest on the island was almost completely uniform across it. As an OSR novitiate at the time, I didn't think too much of it, but nearly a decade of play onward, I've come to realize that there's a popular style of hex map that I don't like very much - the kind that puts a…