>>115451378>>115455637>>115455939>>115456177The problem with most of the adults in LoK, and Korra was that they had no goals beyond Korra, and sat around until they needed to help/teach/fight her. The world seemed to revolve around her, and this is really reflected in how most of the series takes place in one city.
In AtLA you get the sense that these people had other concerns to the point you could do an episode on their village/problems/whatever without the Gaang showing up at all.