Purists are unrepentantly unsatisfied and will be unhappy without perfection. They are an edge case not to be optimized for.
Now I cannot, with a clean conscience, recommend it to people any longer. What will my answer be to anyone, who asks me: "Well, if you are not using Google maps, what map service are _you_ using?" Now I cannot answer OSM, because then it will be: "But they are also allowing big companies to track their users! You are a hypocrite!"
Basically I need something better now, in order to stay consistent and not become a hypocrite. Perhaps I will use my months ago updated maps.me on my phone instead. However, with maps.me issues of late, I will need to switch that eventually as well.
Remember: Ignorants and uninformed people are not to be optimized for, if we want any quality standards to survive on the WWW. To keep standards, one cannot always go for the lowest common denominator.
Tile serving infrastructure was basically on fire.
While it would be nice to avoid this...
> Basically I need something better now
I am honestly curious what you will use.
They did? How come I've never noticed during any visit to the map website? That's a pity, I'd probably have donated.
> Tile serving infrastructure was basically on fire.
I also did not know that! I never felt any too long lag or anything.
There are also popups during part of the year, but someone with axe to grind ensured that they were added to the adblock filter lists.
I am no lawyer and do not wish to read many pages of their legalese. However, if they somehow managed to convince me, that they are not building profiles, that they are not transferring or selling data to anyone else, and that none of the software they use does so behind their backs, then I might trust them. Now that is very difficult to do of course, almost impossible. I would rather trust a single entity, that is not present in any requests to any other website I visit. That seems to be much lower risk than putting data all in the hands of a single party, which is present on many many websites.