Luckily TaleWorlds Entertainment made a few adjustments in the sequel that make them a lot better to handle and way more valuable to have. Upgrades also took a while and the amount of money you got from them made players question if they were even worth having. You would constantly see updates about your settlement being raided and if you were too far away there was nothing you could do about it. In Mount and Blade Warband owning a settlement could be a bit of a hindrance. In Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord something that the developers have worked on and made a lot deeper is governing and the settlement system.
