If it’s bigger, it’s bigger. It’s not like we don’t know how to use numbers.
Why would anyone get worked up about this?
Except we don’t know how to use numbers. That’s always been the beef with the Mercator, people think that’s actually what the world looks like. Not even noticing that the usual cut off (dropping most of Antarctica) puts the equator 2/3 of the way down. There’s really no good reason not to default to a more accurate version.
And map nerds have been worked up about this for decades.