You’re talking about a completely different time period. This is also historically abnormal. Premodern farmers almost universally lived in villages of 100 or mo

You’re talking about a completely different time period. This is also historically abnormal. Premodern farmers almost universally lived in villages of 100 or more people. Check out some sources I linked. Widely dispersed freeholding is super unstable and even more so without modern tools and techniques.