With the exception of the Wii, I think the limitations at this time are more due to keeping them light for the multiplayer/online aspects than RAM usage. In the Playsets you can clearly walk (sail, etc.) very large and dense locations without system issues occurring, because they don't have network play. Although there are certainlyl objects and such not available to us, you can tell they are constructed on the same basic framework.
What I would like is to see is once you hit the threshold, being prompted to say that you can continue to increase the size, but it won't work for online multiplayer (or limited, to say 2 people). Something along those lines.
I also hope to see the 100-limit increased, since that includes downloaded ToyBoxes. There are no system imposed limitations there aside from storage space - and I have a 2TB HD on my Wii U, so I have plenty of that, LOL.