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>They're not reflecting any historical entity to start with
"Counties reflecting more the Frankish gauen than the high medieval and late medieval polities" then.
Just compare the internal borders in picrel to ck3's counties, then compare them to ck2's and see the difference, especially in the low countries, where instead of Loon you have the 'county of Maastricht' which is obviously meant to represent the Maasgau for example.