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Using a perspective projection works because our brains automatically understand the distortions caused by that sort of projection and account for them.

Reprojecting on-the-fly is a way around it. Yes, you're still projecting to two dimensions but it drives home the point that the area of a landmass is relative depending on what the user is looking at. Something like: https://observablehq.com/d/539403a9237e737d