>>719080780
The more I think about it, the more I think this was Natlan's biggest shortcoming. Yes, even worse than the bike and the shit story.
Mond -> Germanic
Liyue -> China
Inazuma -> Japan
Sumeru -> Arabia/Egypt
Fontaine -> France/Italy
Natlan -> ???/grafitti
Natlan is simply not representative of any real real-world culture, and because of that it's too detached from both its world and ours. I keep pointing at the architecture, which stands out like a sore thumb when compared to any other nation of Teyvat.

>>719081356
The lore aspect is a distraction. It's being presented as the main reason, but it's a lie - the world lore should not be relevant to the core story Genshin was telling at the outset, when we were saving nations and only asking for them to put up missing person posters as recompense. Genshin's story lost the plot, and its lore cannot fix that.