I get your point slater, but actually a mapper never only works for his own pleasure. If he did, he'd never puplish a map.
In fact, the maps are made for puplic usage. Sure, that doesn't mean anyone's got to bend over as far he can in order to please everyone. Though, as mentioned already, I don't see the balance here in case we would restrict everyone for the benefit of a minority.
On a side note. I rather play with a lousy, but stable 50 FPS all graphics setting on "high", than trying to squeeze the last bit out of perfomance and end up with some monotone looking fields of boxes. So I hardly ever thouch a map's fog at all, well except for maps providing incredible far ranges. Even though, as YesWeCamp summed up so nicely, gameplay above aesthetics.
In fact, the maps are made for puplic usage. Sure, that doesn't mean anyone's got to bend over as far he can in order to please everyone. Though, as mentioned already, I don't see the balance here in case we would restrict everyone for the benefit of a minority.
On a side note. I rather play with a lousy, but stable 50 FPS all graphics setting on "high", than trying to squeeze the last bit out of perfomance and end up with some monotone looking fields of boxes. So I hardly ever thouch a map's fog at all, well except for maps providing incredible far ranges. Even though, as YesWeCamp summed up so nicely, gameplay above aesthetics.