It's a Small World After All

From all of the trailers and Wiki that I've read, along with my experience with the game thus far, I feel that the Spiral Knight's world is really small. I know that having a really big world isn't too important for this game because you do all of the fun stuff during missions into the Clockworks. Even in the Clockworks, it's really strange how there are grassy lands underground, and most of the missions don't seem to fit the theme of the Clockworks either. I think it would make the game much better if they would at least allow you to leave Haven (which is impossible to do right now) and maybe even allow you to explore the outskirts of Haven and maybe even have side-missions. For now though, we have to live with the simple and repetitive concept of doing missions (even the missions will probably lose excitement after a while), collecting rewards, crafting weapons and armor, and selling all of the things we don't need. I would really like to hear your thoughts about this so please leave a message below!