NOT having a minimap is now considered super hard core??
Oh have times changed lol.
Larian is hard headed with their UI. Maybe if someone internally said, "hey, you know , for immersion you can hide the worldmap in WOW!" someone maybe might notice???? Since the people designing this game basically bases all the systems on WOW and are around that same age/generation, so that might work

"oh, so if WOW does it for like over a decade, maybe we should , eh"???
I mean COMMON. WTF is going on with the UI and game OPTIONS team?