[gwbas1c]

> Now, instead of the info being discoverable instantly, it takes about 30 seconds

No, in the original UI, the information that the users was looking for was not discoverable instantly, and it would have taken much longer than 30 seconds.

I suspect that the author originally wrote a UI that was convenient for them to write, and is going through mental gymnastics to try and justify to themselves why their original UI was better.

> So, despite it taking objectively longer for users to get their answers, they loved it.

Objectively? If a user wants to know what the conditions are at a particular resort, the map-based UI is objectively better. A UI that shows them data that they are not interested in is objectively worse.

I think this article is an example of how, when writing an application, it's easy to throw together a UI that matches our data model. It's much harder to make a UI useful.