As a Chinese, I have to say though the Forbidden City is also great, there is no way to compare its scale with the palaces of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties. Limited by the reduction of timber, financial resources and social environment, the scale of Chinese palaces has been shrinking. Of course, the construction technology and materials in Ming and Qing dynasties have certainly improved, but they are not as grand as those in Tang Dynasty. Your point of view is the same as that of most of us in China. The Daming Palace is mentioned in our history textbook. The Tang Dynasty (mainly the early and prosperous Tang Dynasty period) is also praised and loved by many Chinese people, just as the Roman Empire is to the West and the Abbasid Dynasty is to the Islamic world. I went to Xi'an and Luoyang for a tour just a few weeks ago, and I specially went to the site of Daming Palace. Although there is only flat land left, I still feel great about the remaining building foundations and the stories that happened on that land
By the way, since you like Chinese architecture, I recommend the MC Chang'an project that is being restored by the Chinese teams. Although it is only a small part of Chang'an City, the quality of the work is already very high.↓
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14a4y1n7Dw

My future plan(short-term) is to restore Qianyuan gate, Mingtang(Hall of Bright) and Tiantang(Hall of Heaven) of Ziwei palace in Luoyang. Although the project of Tang dynasty's Luoyang City has been built in MC 7 years ago, the “technique” was not mature at that time. I will make a more detailed version of Luoyang's buildings. As for the more long-term, I will still build the Tang Dynasty style architectures in MC, and it may be more grand and unrestrained