That's just the thing zone overall was a mini game, each area was a CTF which was pretty much the only thing people really played on there. I'm guessing you never heard about ol'West is was suppose to be better than era and had it's own gun style. The old era back in the days seen the stuff and quickly try to bring it's style into there world which kinda of kill the theme in a way . Era today isn't 100% it's own ideas they used content from other servers.
Era never had CTF and stuff back then it was just guns/gangs . Don't judge a book by it's cover lets all just wait and see what's the hype about.