Indeed, especially with the FUEL Refueled mod that, while having a stupid name, fixes a lot of leftover bugs and offers a good deal of extra content (in the form of new races and liveries for example).

It took me about 25 minutes just to “manually” drive from the starting base camp to the next (and closest) base camp. And I did this in an almost straight line by ignoring most roads that weren’t directly on my chosen path.