I think it would be beneficial if view distance sliders were implemented into the settings panel for on-the-fly view distance tweaking. Minimum 500m - Maximum 3000m.
The benefits of this would be massive for fps, and general gameplay.
Entering a city I would slide the view distance down to about 800m, giving me a fps boost in and around these areas while the game is currently in its unoptimized state and then I could up the distance in rural areas where fps isn't as bad.