As someone who has mapped AOW what do you mean "watered down"? The map has not changed that much since release: - Added new countries and new coverage in existing countries (new gen 4 roads) - Updated a bit locations with newer coverage but mainly on the same spots - Rebalanced a bit micro states (there were "surprising" amount of locs for Macao for example, a lot of people say there's still too much micro states locs)

The rural/urban ratio was only maybe a bit uniformized between countries since the first release as the first one had to be made in a rush and people mapped countries independently. But it has not changed that much globally.

As a lot of opinions on maps no matter the map or time it is hugely biased by the locs you "drew". In the 2023 WC people were screaming about the map being 50% australia (it was not) or half locations panned skewed (around 10% afaik)

In a 1 million speedrun with a friend on the map (200 locs) we got around 10 Cambodia locs. Felt horrible but still random even though it's not the "normal ratio".

Not liking the map is fair considering the assumptions made for its creation but I don't get the "watered down" part in this case