Slightly off-tangent, but I wonder how much of the original straight-edge design was dictated by technical limitations of the time. Given that it’s an abstracti

Slightly off-tangent, but I wonder how much of the original straight-edge design was dictated by technical limitations of the time. Given that it’s an abstraction, it might be a form of an abstraction that walks the line between real-world shapes and what you’d traditionally define as abstraction. The “organic” curves in the new map might have been much more difficult to achieve and experiment with using older methods (which I assume was a physical medium) than modern vector drawing tools.