My Garmin use case is cycling and as recent as five years ago I was a happy user of various OSM based alternative maps. But even then, Garmin themselves had alr

My Garmin use case is cycling and as recent as five years ago I was a happy user of various OSM based alternative maps. But even then, Garmin themselves had already switched their cycling devices to an OSM base, mostly giving up on the add-on map upselling business they had. These days, they hardly even try, as in the manual and packaging makes no mention of the fact that you could spend more money if you wanted. And their in-house OSM repackaging has become much pepper over the years, mostly related to how early versions were super stingy with geometry LOD, either for saving storage or for saving rendering cycles. Third party OSM were much nicer back then, but now there is very little reason to go the custom map route (unless you travel one of their two or three geo regions, which for some reason would still rewrite the paid download which they refuse telling you about, or somevof the easily available third party maps). What I'm trying to say: it's hardly surprising if more and more of the people who ran a Garmin alternative hobby move on.