I found myself often avoiding the zoomed out map that showed empire colors and fog of war because I, honestly, though it was a bit bland and grey. It seems like the current map was added simply because they didn't want to rip off Civ 6's "fog of war" style map and, honestly, I think that's a bad idea. Civ 6's fog of war map works and its pleasing to the eye. Humankind's zoomed out map and fog of war needs some color.