I think you guys are being a bit too dramatic frankly.. if
@Crazy Boris wants to use this style for their historical Q-BAMS then all power to them. If you prefer the old style, then simply overlay his map and redo the rebels in a fairly simple fashion. Given the open source nature of the project, I see absolutely nothing wrong with an author who puts hard work into making their own series deciding to change individual portions to suit them. Its not like every WorldA follows
@hadaril's formula.. very recently many have been making WorldAs in a new style introduced by
@Library of Alexandria and this isn't "spelling the end of WorldA" or whatever.. you're free to use what style you wish and frankly it isn't difficult to transfer one to the other. To me, Q-BAM isn't "meant" to be one thing or another... we all have access to the basemaps and even if a style is not something you like then its all standardized and so incredibly easy to just redo to your own liking. The projection is really the only thing you can't really mess with on this project, but the rest is in the eyes of the author. Whether its pleasing aesthetically is another matter entirely, but I don't think we should be claiming that this is "the end of Q-BAM" just because one regular contributor is creating his own scheme. Thats never been new to this forum and we have a number of different schemes and formats.