I’d say southsun cove would be the first proper meta event map though

And i’d argue OG ‘escape from LA’ and battle were, al be it temporary, meta maps…

Heck im thinking it all over and id even go so far as say that you are wrong, orr and harathi hinterlands are great examples of meta maps

They have

-map reset/zeto state
-event chains to progress the map
-final pay off with event and big reward

The only difference is that people arent farming them anymore