Agreed. The old random spawn system was great and far more realistic.

In my opinion this spawn system is way better, even though what you say is definetly true and a big downside.
With the old system you can reliably and really quickly respawn and kill your killer.
Need to get back to elektro but you spawned in Svetlo? Suicide within 30 seconds. And again and again and again, each time you have a chance to spawn in Elektro.
Within 6 Minutes you will have ten chances to spawn there.
This even extends to inland areas, letting people get back to their body at higher tier mil bases within fifteen minutes, leaving no time for their killer to have a fair and realistic chance to deal with them.

With the new system it takes at least 6 minutes to even get a CHANCE to respawn close.
And then again 6 minutes, and then again. And again. This helps a lot with respawn spammers who run back to their bodies or use their team to abuse the respawn mechanic, camping bodies until their reincarnated friends are back within minutes.

Also freshie chaos has changed with the new system. Now you only have the possibility for freshie chaos in the current spawn town for a short time.
Back then if you are on the coast and a few people know you are there and want you dead, there will be an endless stream of respawners rushing you, not just 6 minutes long.
Which also makes setting up spawntown stashes with hidden guns lookrative specifically to get back at the guy who just killed you a minute ago, since you can get there (somewhat) at will.

I have seen this taken to the extreme on vanilla Podpivas. Now with the new system the server is a lot better. Yes the spawn town is chaos for 6 minutes, but all of the coastal "respawn arena shooter" gameplay is gone.
The players there really took it to the extreme, I had multiple fights where literally the meta was: Geared guy and freshie orbiter duo XD
Hey freshie, go check that out, you are expendable. If they shoot you I shoot them and you are back within 5 minutes.
Or a base ON the coast shooting everyone, if they got sniped they just jumped back in shortly after with the quick respawn jumping.
In many towns it became a loot hiding deathmatch. People just crammed guns into every corner hidden to respawn spam and instantly get back into the fight.
Baiting with their freshie bodies until shot at, to only THEN grab a gun or have their sniper friend take a safe shot.
Once again this has mostly been fixed with the new system.

I highly prefer the new flawed system over the old extremely flawed and abused, making me question why I should even play- system.

I wish we had the possibility for long respawn timers on community servers.
And the not being able to respawn while KO setting already helps with respawn spammers.

I's like to see random spawn points with more story telling. make beds spawn points with the possibility of spawning in on any bed in the map. spawn in lying down of course. Use the group spawns to put everyone who logs off in the bunker together lol. You could add a suicide respawn penalty of 60 seconds that stacks if you suicide again within 10 minutes to stop "kill yourself fast travel" but you wouldn't need if the spawns were really random.