I have to fully agree with this thread. From my perspective, the game's development is heavily based around what the creators want to see in the game rather than what the clientele whats.
I feel that if the developers were to listen to the suggestions made by the community, and implemented what people would like to see then the user experience for this game would improve.
Reminder that we voted for this. They gave the option and of course, because maps were already dead and a large majority of the players played on slate, maps lost the vote.
And even still, maps:shaders votes was still a smaller gap than not-slate:slate population. Probably some people who only ever playing on slate voting in favor of maps because 'muh nostalgia'.