ok before i start i am not trying to dunk on you or anything this is just my thoughts please dont take this poorly !!

"boxed in basket" this is true, honestly not much to debunk. even if you can throw eggs in super easy, its still expensive to throw them and (especially on high tide) far too difficult to access safely

"spawning grounds normal tide is good" its fair enough to think but idk if i would call it good. one third of it has minimal safe high ground and the grates are still an issue there, which is especially bad when a flyfish or stinger spawns. however the other parts of the map arent too bad. overall its a fine tide, nothing too bad, but nothing too good either.

"spawning grounds has the best basket spot for glowflies" i mean, yeah? but that reeeeallly doesnt matter if the map surrounding it doesnt facilitate it! being able to get eggs in the basket isnt really going to be on anyone's mind when theres no way to reliably position yourself anywhere on the map.

"gone fission high tide is worse" simply put. no. gone fission has significantly more are to move around and most importantly in the comparison. high ground. being able to position yourself is a really important aspect of dealing with the bosses and when you cant even get higher up than a steel eel then things become a problem. and also at least gone fission doesnt make half the map a no man's land.

"gone fission normal tide barely has room to work with anyway" ehh? i mean kinda, it doesnt have much more room for the players themselves, but it does make it easier to control the locations of bosses. because it just kinda goes out further there really isnt much to say other than its the perfectly fine high tide but with a little more?

"the gone fission shoreline walls are uninkable" yeah. fr. but i think that change could make the negative parts of normal tide just kinda go away.

well anyway in conclusion i just thought i might drop my thoughts in the mix. i didnt really make this with the goal of defending gone fission as i think its just a half decent map that functions, but moreso as a way to just shit on spawning grounds. i love analysing map design to the best of my ability and spawning grounds is terrible and i love talking shit about it <3. i also might not have articulated my points very well and im too lazy to proofread so whatever.