It's a little disappointment that the answer to many of the issues with the map and game are "It's been fixed in a mod."
I think it's fantastic. The dev team makes a game to their liking, and then so many people are engaged enough to take time to mod the game into what they want it to be. Which means that you as the player can choose exactly how you want the game to be (almost). We could never make everyone happy right out of the box since opinions vary so much anyway.