How is it fun?

My town up till recently was a dumping ground, I started out with great intention but I rapidly ran out of money and land at the start, I also bought quite a few premium buildings as well, as you know while playing you keep getting different types of buildings so I just placed the new stuff in any space I had with the intention of starting a redesigned soon, I would start doing a small area finish that area then get another building of the same type from a task in the game so a redesign was needed again, and on it went till I became overwhelmed with buildings also as I'm not the most imaginative person it got to a point where I just didn't know where to start, so just kept dumping building next to each other, but I still loved playing the game, reading the funny dialogue between the characters in the game and the challenges that were set by EA for things like Christmas, easter etc, finally just after this Christmas we had a period with very little to do so I finally made the decision to sort out my Springfield, l got up the nerve and pressed the nuke button in the game, then thought instantly what have I done when faced with a large green virtually empty area, I have now just about finished with my design and I'm finally happy for now with what I consider myself to be a reasonable Springfield, well something that I'm happy with as I don't have the skill or imagination of some on here, anyway I hope that this sort of explains how someone can enjoy the game yet not have a good design as up till recently I was one of those people, sorry about the wall of text as I'm also one of those who aren't great with language as well, all the best Gary.