My impression (without doing any research) is that the maps have declined in quality recently. Maybe they've changed vendors, maybe it's dependent on the part of the country, maybe it's all in my head. <g>

OK, it's not all in my head, because the trip to Charlotte, NC in June had us comparing an old, purchased city map with a new AAA one as we worked out routes. We ended up buying a new city map during the trip, and wished we had gotten a state one as well. The AAA one wasn't wrong, but it was hard to read, street names were badly placed, had bad color choices on the linework--generally, it was poor cartography.