The new map system is utterly annoying

It seems to me that there was an ambitious concept for the final game, but not enough time or resources were available to bring it to fruition.

One more issue: the concept of the cards is turned on its head: it’s not the card itself that matters, but the location where it’s placed. As a result, “cards” are no longer interesting items, but merely serve as counters. “Items are important”?

I don't know what the point of the redesign of the final stage was. If the goal was to improve the user experience, you've completely failed. I'm starting to doubt that was even the case.