I agree
The new maps are absolutely awful, not only no satellite, but the caches themselves don't actually stand out enough on any of the map options (well those I can see, mapquest aerial and topo maps are utterly useless) once you start to zoom out.
At least while they were trialling the new maps, you could select to go back to original maps, does that mean that usage of the new maps was higher (I find it really hard to believe) or that Groundspeak have ignored what people were actually using?
I would definitely pay more to have the old maps back, feeling really despondent right now