I always love a new map, and I can only judge New York City, but for that city, this isn't an improvement.
It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart.
Someone may look at this map and (correctly) think that walking from the 4 to the N in Manhattan is easy, so you can also walk from the J in Brooklyn to the R in Queens, which would be, I don't know, at least an hour's walk.
I think it's prioritizing aesthetic beauty over function.
It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart.
Someone may look at this map and (correctly) think that walking from the 4 to the N in Manhattan is easy, so you can also walk from the J in Brooklyn to the R in Queens, which would be, I don't know, at least an hour's walk.
I think it's prioritizing aesthetic beauty over function.