This is the server I settled on after browsing through a good few, and here's honestly why:
The map is very open and has a good amount of variety, and although there's plenty of landmass, people have stayed largely <2k blocks of spawn, rather then on many other server where they be 10-20K.
The community is actually active, inviting, and starting to cover a range of time-zones.
Things and people are being allowed to actually play-out and structure the world organically over time, without all the tedious "towny-esque" rules, recruitment, drama.
Owner is actually around and very responsive. So if a problem does pop up, you'll know/see on the discord what's going on surprisingly fast.
So yeah, if you too are tired of bouncing from cheating ops, to generic repeat "insert feudal kingdom" slop as I was, this one might be worth actually checking out for that comfy survival community server feels.