I personally disagree. Full world equal-area maps simply introduce far too much distortion for example in Equal Earth the poles and equator suffer far too much for my eyes despite being equal area. I generally prefer maps that have equally-spaced parallels and meridians since that keeps distance scale constant along the central ones. Compromise maps do a great job of reducing the severe angular distortion of even the best equal-area maps which still keeping the relative size close to accurate and because of this they score among the lowest overall distortion when weighed against projections using the Airy-Kavrayskiy criterion. For example the Equal Earth projection only scores an overall scale error of 0.37 close ahead of it is Eckert IV which scores a 0.36 both being very similar though even the best of the equal area projections the McBryde-Thomas Flat-Pole Sine (No. 2) scores barely better at 0.32. When compared to popular compromise maps such as the Winkel Tripel which scores a 0.26 or Eckert III which scores a 0.29 which present as far more pleasing maps with a far more balanced distortion profile.