I'll admit you do have good points, regarding both playability and original product.
That's as far as I'll go though :P.
About the desert2 thing, well that was probably looked at by some high-up members of the AC community who worked so that it would remain an official map.
In this case it's MerCyKiL (not to say he's a bad mapper but I haven't seen any official-map-quality stuff from him - no offense), and it's not an official map.
But the original product point still stands :P.
That's as far as I'll go though :P.
About the desert2 thing, well that was probably looked at by some high-up members of the AC community who worked so that it would remain an official map.
In this case it's MerCyKiL (not to say he's a bad mapper but I haven't seen any official-map-quality stuff from him - no offense), and it's not an official map.
But the original product point still stands :P.