Thought that this may interest a few players.

This does actually involve modding so sadly is completely impossible in LFS. Other sim's do allow modding however and this is for Assetto Corsa. This is what is possible today.
https://youtu.be/lt8EkjM0zrw

It looks great but it easily gets boring after a while, it is not that big and/or having much variation. This desert scenery was chosen on purpose, not so much work to create, some random stones and plants here and there.

The difference between LFS and -all- other sim racing names is the ability to go off track. (Since Westhill 2.0). Only GTA has this too but this is not really a race sim, more a cruising sim. This is why GTA San Andreas still is massively popular.

Servers with 1000 people on them are a completely different story; https://www.game-state.com/index.php?game=samp