That's not true. I've had a lot of people say they stayed on SKCraft because they saw spawn and shat brix. That might not be the case if you're already a member, but then not everything revolves around you.
Yes. While they were never my primary reasons for staying here, I loved all of the spawn towns. Except the (now offline) current one. Because it's a bit generic. Just your average low-fantasy medieval harbour town. It was beautifully built, sure, but it doesn't really have any flavour, nothing that would make me go "woah". For me, detail is not unnecessary, I need some tidbits to marvel at. I liked all the other towns much better.
The current Alice 1.7 spawn was a quick work over a cancellation of an a-maze-ing built, I can understand that you and other could feel it was average in comparison of previous. The incoming spawn have more people and time spent on it. Server set-up going steadily meanwhile.