Creating the perfect Apex Legends map is a tricky task simply because you have to cater to casual players and ALGS pros alike. Broken Moon was very polarizing in this regard when it first launched, but a big season 21 map update is trying to strike a more pleasing balance.
That season 21 teaser where Olympus crashed into Broken Moon, creating a giant explosion in the skybox before games? That’s a literal, canon event in the Apex lore, and it has massive implications for the map. First of all, the explosion in the stasis net left the map completely unprotected, resulting in the Broken Moon area being completely sheared off from Cleo. It’s now floating freely between the gravity fields of Cleo and the planet Boreas. The debris and explosions also left tangible changes on the map—for all intents and purposes, Promenade got nuked, and it ain’t coming back.