I respond to an excellent comment from neonGliiitch:
I’ve seen this concept of having stuff every hex, but man that feels like so much imo. I’ve hiked through the woods before and let me tell ya sometimes you just see nothing. Sure you might see birds or squirrels, but do we need to describe that every hex? I just feel like explaining a hex to the start of a zone, and then just moving on and not filling every hex with countless detail will make it so much faster. And for a game like west marches where your players need to get from point a to b and back again in a single session this will let players do more than listening to how every hex has birds in the trees or something. Idk. Just seems lot a like to me.