I am leaning more towards "yes" now.
I have not been lucky enough to get my #1 most wanted/favorite villager's Amino card, and while I know you can trade with other forumers, I know my dad wouldn't allow me to give my address to someone I don't even know (not that I blame him). Plus, I do not know any other available methods for inviting dream villagers in, besides the "choose from three" method that was mentioned in the direct. But even there, chances are slight.
I heard that you can invite villagers to move to your island on island tours, but we are not sure about this, and this could just be a rumor.
We are not sure if villager adoption will return (which it should!).
I do not want to make the same mistake as I did in New Leaf, where I didn't know about all the methods for moving in villagers (more specifically the adoption one). So, back when Kabuki and Monty were my favorite villagers, I resetting until I got one of them, after spending over two months in my very first town, which I kinda regret. I would rather just do the resetting first this time around.
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Not only that, but I have a lot of unanswered questions about the beginning when you first begin:
What villagers can you get as starters?
What villagers can you NOT get as starters?
What is the "If you could being something to a deserted island" queston about?"
And I wanna find this stuff out.
I just hope will will be able to reset/rebuild our island with the new audosave feature. Someone pointed out that we may not even get to.
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Hopefully, we can get word on what methods will be available for finding, adopting, and moving in villagers (especially dreamies), so we can make this decision wisely.
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Now, as for the fruit, grass pattern, and map layout, I am not worried about these. Grass pattern has no effect on me, I will get all the fruit eventually on island tours, and even map layouts (unless it's just a mess), as we will have tools for getting around without bridges and slopes, and we will be able to terraform and waterscape later on in the game.