I have to say that exploring the Atlas is now FAR FAR more satisfying!

So been slowly going at my own pace and comparing opening the Atlas to previous leagues and for me this feels MUCH MUCH more intuitive and straight forward but still is fun to explore to find your favourite maps, finding the unique maps and so on. Overall just a much better experience than ever before and map sustain feels really solid.
Also what I love is that I can plan a great league starter to take me to my first T16 map really fast AND THEN I can open the entire Atlas doing ONLY T16 maps if I choose so which means if my build is good at start I can farm better currency while opening the Atlas.
GREAT JOB GGG!
Hope some of this carries over to POE2 0.5

A lot more clicks to open a map. Not aproved.

The progression seems fine.