Why should paid maps have priority above the rebuild of the base map? The way I see it is this: the base map is being rebuild from the ground up. This means that it actually becomes a complete new map. Actually I'd rather have the base map being rebuild in a short period of time with new map DLCs being postponed than the base map being rebuild in small phases during several years. Because the longer it takes for the base map being rebuild, the longer we have an ugly I-80 in Nevada, an ugly Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc, bad repeating textures all over the place, bad Sierra Nevada mountains, no drop on the I-15 near Primm, etc, etc.
Can we avoid California, Nevada and Arizona? What do you think? Ofcourse not. It's a too important area. It's the southwest of the United States. I want to drive in that part of the United States. I don't want to avoid that area.