Hey retards, Windhelm's design in Skyrim is not canon. You may as well complain that Skyrim didn't depict Windhelm the same way Arena did. In the lore, major cities have populations larger than 50-100.
Double false equivalence fallacy. First of all, nobody cares about how cities or dungeons or pretty much anything in
Arena was depicted. Beyond the fact that most of it was randomly generated,
Arena was a dull, linear, Nintendo-hard, broken piece of shit even by 1994's standards. Approximately zero people have bothered to play it for more than five minutes nowadays. Your second fallacy is you apparently feigning ignorance of the trope where populations and sizes of video game universes are condensed in order to have an actually playable game. Obviously a little suspension of disbelief is called for on that front. It doesn't follow that we can extend said suspension of disbelief to other elements of the game, like the city design. If it did, we could challenge pretty much anything that happens in these games. Hey, maybe the Skyrim Civil War never happened, because wars involve more than a few dozen guys whacking each other in each battle!
Also, on the notion of hair:
<beardo> do you even beard?
<beardo> pics
<Saddam> No
<beardo> bitch, plz
<Saddam> All the beards are neatly trimmed and metrosexual
<beardo> wat
<Saddam> I have a five-o-clock shadow
<Foxbox> A baked pie
<beardo> why would they^?
<beardo> why?
<Saddam> I told you that the character design in this game is very homosexual
<beardo> I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION
<Saddam> Actually, I'm being dumb
<Saddam> The beards are fine
<Saddam> It's the hairstyles that are terrible
<beardo> so there are rugged manly beards?
<Saddam> Some of them are rugged and manly
<beardo> good
<beardo> good..
<beardo> now, what is this I hear about hair?
<Saddam> But you can't have the long sweat-drenched hair anymore
<beardo> FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
<Saddam> That was the coolest hairstyle ever
<Crudblud> I didn't realise the hair in Skyrim was supposed to be sweat-drenched, I thought it was just shoddily made
<Saddam> It was like having "badass" stamped on your forehead
<Saddam> Some of them are meant to be sweat-drenched
<Saddam> The game was nice enough to give us options
<beardo> Not to imply Vikings were dirty, because they weren't.
<beardo> But they didn't have hairstyles straight out of a beauty saloon
<Saddam> If my hair were long enough, I would grab some gel and give that look a try
<Saddam> It's the right color already
<Saddam> I think I could pull it off
<beardo> I suppose the most tolerable hairstyle in TESO is the bald one then
<beardo> IF there is a bald one
<Saddam> There is indeed a bald one
<beardo> I suppose 90% of them are modern prettyboy styles
<Saddam> Pretty much
<beardo> I don't fucking get that?
<Saddam> Well, maybe not "modern"
<beardo> What is the purpose?
<Saddam> But they're all clean and neat and nicely combed and everything