After the very first day of beta, when everything was very jerky and lagging, they made a few changes and I haven't had any issues with the map whatsoever since that day. None at all. I'm sad to see so many people still having problems but hey, it's only been a few days since public release. This is not unexpected and I'm sure most of these issues can be untangled over time.

• The non-interactive map - or equivalently, the interactive one in zoomed in state - is huge, cannot be zoomed out, and has to be dragged around. Some people have complained that there is a large amount of free space around it. I play on a smaller screen, and I'm sure mobile phones don't have much space available either. There is no conceivable reason the map couldn't be made smaller to fit on the screen - even if you wanted to fit the extra locations, you could do so by increasing the map size slightly, not by making it gigantic.
• The interactive map is especially grating given the need to zoom in before doing anything. My browser has WebGL turned off, so when I saw the giant, painful experience of the "compatibility version", I had some hope that the full version was more usable. After enabling WebGL I was met with the exact same experience, except requiring an extra click and waiting for an extra zoom-in animation before having the privilege to start dragging the map around.
• The map now sticks around for about a second after travelling to a new place before fading out. Like many of the other issues, this doesn't sound like much - and the first time I tried using the map, I barely even noticed it - but it very quickly became extremely grating. In regular play, this is infuriating.
• Replacing the text with icons made locations harder to quickly find. I wouldn't mind this too much if the locations remained in the same places they always have been - the rearranging of locations that came with the website redesign was far more jarring in that regard - but the fact that the map has to be dragged around, meaning locations don't even have a set place on the screen anymore, does magnifiy the annoyance of not being able to recognise them at a glance.
• All of the above issues are greatly amplified by the splitting of locations. I can somewhat understand the reasoning behind that - the effort for a more "immersive" experience, to group things spatially and require travel between places that aren't immediately adjacent. However, combined with the rest of the redesign, the effect is to make the new experience even more unpleasant: firstly, what used to take a fraction of a second now takes multiple seconds filled with animations, panning, zooming, fading, and what used to be almost muscle memory now requires proper focus, reading through names and trying to find the right location; and at the same time, a change is implemented that requires performing the above even more frequently than was previously necessary, amplifying the annoyance and frustration.

I'm all for including sex work-related content, but the context - a throwaway line about how "low" a given district is - is a mite disrespectful and generally overly stuffy.

The compatibility map has been resized to fit without dragging, with an option to zoom in if desired! Thank you so much to the Failbetter team!

For some reason it doesn't quite fit on my browser, so the edges are cut off—Mahogany Hall still requires dragging, if I ever felt like visiting.

The compatibility map has been resized to fit without dragging, with an option to zoom in if desired! Thank you so much to the Failbetter team!

Sounds like this could be solved by having the browser remember zoom level. Then you could play in zoomed-in compatibility mode by default.