Nah... What is texture and what is detail depends on the viewing distance. When you are close to the ground, you see the texture of soil/sand, and take roads/plants as details. When you are far away from the ground, you cannot hope to see the texture of soil/sand. Instead, what was previously details now forms texture. So, however far away you are from the ground, you should always be able to see texture. In those screen shots in question, texture is pretty much gone. It looks awfully smooth. I think that was the reason for complaints.
That being said, I still can't wait to try DCS 2.0 out. It looks so much better than what we have for now... I don't expect it to be perfect though. Nothing is perfect.