Is it just me?

[Narwan]

You may have a point if the game in fact had a terrain hex for a ploughed field. It doesn't. It's got wheat crops and green crops.

And the game doesn't say 'there could be a tree and maybe a small shack'. The game says to assume there is enough going on in a hex to provide at least some cover for troops in it so there actually are trees and/or shacks, bushes, crops, gullies, ditches, rises, bumps, statues, fences, small walls, dog houses, stables, outhouses, etc in a clear hex. Just not enough for it too qualify for another terrain status.

It's never been any different and that point has been made very often in the past. My bad for thinking it was common knowledge among gamers.
The game offers only a very small set of standard terrain hexes and completely clear terrain devoid of any cover is not one of them.

Narwan