The game looks great, and I find it disturbing that you managed to create a character very much like yourself.
The fact that the area is not a circle adds something quite interesting to the game. It makes every game feel unique. I don't mean to say that when the zone is a circle every game is the same since the closing point is always different, but a zone with different shapes sounds so much better imo.
I think about respawning also CoD Warzone has the same, right? I'm 90% sure that when you get knocked down you can heal yourself.
The weirdly shaped zone creates an interesting spread of players. With a circle most player are spread around in it but with these shapes some people get squeezed together real tight. Makes the game harder for sure.
I think there was an item you could get that let you get back up in Warzone but you gotta find it or buy it. It's been a few years since I played though.