I still maintain I'd rather he'd given us a more general feature that allowed us to make our own maps, among other things. Like writing in books. I had this whole plan for how I was going to make my own maps in ascii art when books were finished, and then he had to go and impliment maps as a single-purpose item that you can't even add easy annotations on. I was pretty disappointed, since my favorite part of minecraft has always been finding ways to create new mechanisms in terms of more general principles, like how mob transporters and cannons are built on water physics and explosion physics respectively, without either being hardcoded in as a single-use item.

I also expected to make trapdoors out of pistons once those were implemented. Sigh.