It's a different world than 2012/2013 when IIAB began delivering offline maps. Everyone wants very reliable maps if very fast maps are not possible.

And essentially all teachers and implementers now ask for:

1. Rapidly-installable Map Packs for their region, w/o any hassle at all.
2. Search should work for countries & famous ocean/rivers/mountains if we want to be taken seriously by geography teachers. Even if states/provinces/territories & seas/lakes do not show up, so be it — we cannot please everyone!
3. A reliable (if not fast!) User Experience is now expected by nearly everyone worldwide, no matter how rural, even if it will never match Google Map. CONTEXT: teachers around the world now ALSO use Google Maps, on their personal smart phones when in the city, e.g. when they can afford mobile data etc, so they now all expect something similar to Google Maps. CONSEQUENCE: our own OSM user experience / usability (UX Design) must now take this established culture into account — now that 8 years later, the whole planet is very aware of Google Maps and uses it on occasion here & there (including its cached version offline!) POSITIVE: our adoption can in fact now accelerate dramatically, now that we no longer need extensive training sessions as we used to, to explain the concepts of zooming/searching/etc.

COROLLARY: of course beauty matters a lot with maps (in education especially!) but equally important is buy-in from geography teachers wanting to showcase physical geography in their lessons (illustrating their own country/continent/region especially!)

So, perfectionism is the enemy of done. As much as compelling cartographic beauty certainly does matter, to create a love of maps in children, let's also think hard about kid-friendly search — such that we're creating an educational community product that's genuinely opening students' eyes around the globe — opening eyes to their ever-growing environmental geography & human geography questions.......about their planet and sharing it with almost 8 Billion other people!