To each their own, I like it. I also used to live/operate post game out of the Huntsman cottage in Talmberg. After missions and general sandbox play it will be decent. You should be able to repair your own product, there is a grind stone (idk if it came with 1.6.1 or not but I heard people complaining there isnt a grindstone, there totally is), you can hunt and sell to butcher and/or Kornelious(Kornelious will buy everything so you can loot bandits on the roads near P.Slav and dump off to him), you can fight in the arena (though that’s kinda just for fun, no real point), you can do archery (again, pointless just kind of fun). It’s not the best, no, but it’s not like there is a lot to do in Rattay either, aside from spend money in shops like a tailor (which will hopefully come when they expand as Divish’s end DLC dialogue suggests).
As mentioned earlier, to each their own though.