Revisiting old ravenholm start with new information

[DeadFool]

So I feel as if there are a lot of things to reconsider regarding the structure and connections map-wise after the whiteboard photo we got a few months ago. I always imagined that ravenholm coming directly after canals was a no brainer, for late 2002, no less. Now, with access to the proposed chapter order for that time period, a question pops up in my head, what was the real purpose of the lake start/old route through ravenholm? The zig-zag entrance to ravenholm had been a thing since 2001, if i remember correctly(quarrytown_01) and was used for the E3 2003 demo and was even to be used for the 2002 E3 demo. But the lake entrance staying so late into development makes little sense if we were to start from the quarry area by then.
I'm aware that the storyline and maps of hl2 were very segmented and disconnected until very late development. I'm also aware that this is literally a proposed order and not something that should be taken too seriously but I thought this would be an interesting discussion to have. 

[taucannon3000]

the passing through ravenholm was prolly to add something else at that point in the game, because everything else before it was kinda repetitive and boring, and ravenholm was added to give the horror-survival thing, and tried to live to the expectations made by the E3 presentation. Lore wise, metrocops were all around the outskirts looking for gordon and he had to pass through ravenholm