In HD Italy has a cliff keeping the mainland from walking onto the middle landscape unless they ship themselves over - in the current DE iteration that cliff was removed or turned into an opening and allowing the mainland players to simply waltz right into those precious resources with their already considerable Land Advantage.
This is the one change that ruins the map for me - it was my favorite map growing up, I’d ask that this change be reverted. The one good thing was that at least now you can walk from the far left to the far north without getting stuck/needing to chop/needing the onager cut a path. That being said I would prefer the old version entirely over this current one.