(28 Jun 2023, 11:24 am)Andreos1 wrote I'd not be surprised if they looked at budgets, analysed lead times with printers and just gave up the ghost.
There's absolutely no way they could have or still can keep up with the changes that some operators make.
Not saying it's acceptable. Far from it. But I think it's symptomatic of the sector and the mess, lack of communication and failure of some operators to maintain any sort of network stability.
Doubtless cost will have been a key factor (though suspect this is pretty tiny in the grand scheme of things but is something easy to offer up as a saving). Doubt frequency of service changes will be as big a deal as you suggest - they tended to reissue the maps on a locval athority (or even smaller area) basis once or twice a year anyway. Even with the most irritating of frequent changes, they tend to not pick on the same area multiple times within one year in the main.
I suspect the biggest driver, perhaps after perceived cost, will have been some moron sat somewhere deciding "noone needs printed material in this day and age" then convincing themselves they were right by just removing it all.