I definitely think there needs to be more entities roaming the world if creatures aren’t going to be respawning. I do like how we get a moment to settle down and interact with the party at the camp, but i agree we need a place that feels like our base of operations.
I'm sure that they will put a place to be our base of operations, but I was thinking more in the sense that as we travel, it would be interesting to have several places where we can interact with the local residents as we rest in the same way as in the previous games.