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IT had to be nerfed because, as you said, hiding it wouldn't be enough. But then it was additionally hidden and, in my opinion, that was a good decision towards the lore. Not every change is for balancing.

In the Third Age nobody really knowns what happened to Numenor, if the island still exists or whatever. Expeditions towards the island were fruitless or did never return. How should it be possible that the island exists on a map?

Also, the mod is made to be played by a player who does not know everything about the mod. A normal player, without the knowledge of the wiki, does not know of the island. See it as an easter egg, like Shrek's house or the Giant Cherry Tree. A long time after the island was added, it wasn't noticed. Only after the discovery spread across the comunity, Mevans focused to make it a real feature of the mod instead of just the useless Island biome before.