It would have been more expensive to develop and also much more intensive on computers at the time without carefully produced assets and optimization.
So EA decided "Tiberium changed again and now everything is a nice easy desert LOL". *******. Remember that they filled Generals with an incredible number of needless draw calls (some models used bits from something like 20 different shared textures) that cause all sorts of performance issues.
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