I do like the clearity and the farms on picture 7 and 8. I am not a fan of the AH 3 green yellow sky... I also like the open field plane selection.
Lets not over react 😂😂
In the sense that everything is more clearer, the sky is blue, and I bet it was always day, because there was no night time (night time is not good for a game like this).
AH 3 might have more polygons and pixels, but at the cost of being more muddy and with the new 'special effects' like shadows, bloom etc it looks like it went through various filters and it makes you see the world like you would have vision impairment.
That's why I prefer AH 1 graphics (AH 2 graphics looks ok also)