It's open world, but....

[Forgotten]

It is open world, but its so empty. Rarely ever see anything driving the roads, rarely see civilians anywhere....enemy always comes in the same numbers and even on extreme that are not very smart. Wildlands is so much better in this regard.

[raull127]

The world in BP is actually FULL of ♥♥♥♥... The issue is that almost everything here is just boring and poorly designed, especially the open world itself.
An Ubi Dev actually wrote an article referring to this. Where he stated that they didn't get why playtesters were saying that the map of Breakpoint is empty. And because of that they then filled the map with icons, to inform the player that there were things in the map.
Clearly no one there understood that this was the real problem. If there's boring crap everywhere = there's nothing in this map.