I see your point, this is because it only fills in the starting area with water.
Generating a world with the default map settings will result in the pond you mention, and the "normal" map around it.
I highly recommend as per my last post to use a different mod such as IslandStart to generate a world with islands, instead of the default world.
If I find some time I will see that I can add a mod setting to generate a proper SeaBlock world without any other mods.
Thanks for your feedback.