This is a pretty terrible way to make this point. The pic on the left is neater and the one on the right leaves almost no space for the people living there to do anything. You probably want a little bit of cleared land for literally anything to do on the island.
Then again, there isn't a dock. So I figure the island on the right has a better way of building boats to leave.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have actually hiking, mushroom picking, disposing of hunted animal guts etc. It's fun for a bit but it's really not my thing.... like I said above, having some space for people instead of being super cramped is optimal. Good thing real life offers these options as opposed to the stupid binary of this post.