I too was dismayed to see the price bump. I do feel I get my money out of the mapping apps I use but none are perfect. I’m rocking HEMA Explorer, GAIA, OnX, Field Maps (ARCGIS stuff), Garmin Earthmate (only use with my InReach), Avenza and some apps like iOverlander and park4night that plug into those and/or Google Maps/Earth. Too damn many.
My primary app is still HEMA. They were licensing GAIA‘s interface in the US but they have/had better layers, my favorite being the Benchmark layers. Gaia does have some cool ones I spend a great deal of time in, particularly private land ownership and historic topos, etc. I really wish there was a perfect solution, I’m worried HEMA may just turn off one day and then what? I can export to GAIA but I’ve not found a way to mass export yet. I’ve got a ton of great stuff on there from the past 5-6 years, thousands of Utah routes and waypoints, Greenland, PanAmerican Highway, Baja, etc.
I would pay a great deal of money to have all my tracks & waypoints from previous GPS units, apps, laptops and tablets all combined into once place.