I think we're saying the same thing. Small feature culling "works" with active grid paging, except the objects are now a chunk, which of course is much larger and so they are not culled from the same distance. Here is some example footage, if anyone was curious:
https://streamable.com/nnh1xt
https://streamable.com/shzc7v
Introducing Proper Fading
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Re: Introducing Proper Fading
I'm not familiar with the active grid system at all so can't speak to how doable this would be, but from what I gather from whats been said it would be pretty complex and probably not worth the overhead. At bare minimum I think fading distant statics will be a necessary graphical addition as the popping is quite egregious right now. LOD/Distant object fade is a staple in virtually every open world game that isn't from 2002. So I think it's important to lay out the possible ways this can be done here so people can test the methods and see what works, and what doesn't.
You will likely want some type of cross-fading between LODs as well, especially with that draft MR in place for them (maybe this is slightly going off topic and best saved for another discussion).
Re: Introducing Proper Fading
Cross-fading between LOD (which Skyrim also has) is high on my Wishlist too. I've been hand-making LOD for lots of the common exterior objects.