I think treasure chests are severely unrewarding feeling right now. Personally I almost never open them unless I happen to be right next to it for another reason.
I’m proposing that the rewards in treasure chests be greatly upgraded and that treasure chests appearing or not be randomized and more likely to NOT appear. Eventually I’d like to see completely random locations so that any one map may have dozens (if not more) of potential treasure chest locations.
This would both give people a reason to fully explore maps and also make a treasure chest appearing (or finding a previously unknown chest) feel like a “WOOHOO!” moment.
On the exploration front, I’ve always been the kind of person who enjoys fully exploring maps but have found LE has little reason to do this. This could help with that.