I agree with most of your points @dakasha, but I would never find this true for any single feature. A MVP is a lot better than nothing, I can work with an MVP. Someone, as you said, might be scared away with how ‘bare bone’ the current tile map system is and switch to a different engine. And that would be totally fine, if there is a better tool for their specific game they should switch. Not to mention the user that would have been scared away because of that system would be equally scared away if it didn’t exist.
Even though the tile map needs improvements it is for many games adequate and adds value. As an example the game my team is working on is using it, but only for a tiny part of the game. It made that single thing it is used for so much simpler to build than if the feature wouldn’t have been there.
As a side note; I guess discussions like this is why you don’t like forums 