It would create more interaction PERIOD, No one can deny that! looking back a year if not more you would see players all around the map. Remember when the weed field was packed and I mean packed 10+ cars. Or you would see people running diamonds constantly, every time a shady car passed they would run frantically.
And grinding money is apart of the game, I understand some people would enjoy having it be a wasteland server, guns are dirt cheap and you could constantly keep re-gearing to fight cops or other rebels but that's not what made asylum the most popular life mod. It was originally the players and funny antics that came.
With the new mod I think we should all start fresh again and begin a new renaissance for asylum.