Hi, I (and many others) used to love Strava mainly because we could easily use your excellent heatmaps in high resolution (i.e in the highest levels beyond 15) in external tools that we use to plan hiking or backpacking trips, i.e. CalTopo, Gaia, etc.

But a few months ago, you changed that. You broke everything, and everyone with a bit of technical understanding and the ability to read through GitHub and OSM forums knows what changed. It's clear and obvious that you want to keep users on your own platform and make them pay. But things like this just scream "infinite corporate greed". It's such a shame that you did this. Strava is shooting itself in the foot. People will not change their route planning tools they've used for years and suddenly switch over to the Strava route planner - which is inferior in so many ways.

Here's an idea for your product management: why don't you charge separately for external access to your highest-resolution global heatmaps? Something like $25 a year, ONLY so we can use your heatmaps in any external tool again in the highest resolution. No other Strava premium features. Only external highest-resolution heatmap access.

This would be forward-thinking, unlike the current approach to keep users locked into your own platform. People won't come. They will leave instead. I would happily pay a small fee, JUST for the external heatmap access - in the highest resolution, of course. Don't add more restrictions there.

Or just make it free (again), but that most likely won't happen. Obviously...

I will definitely never pay for a full Strava account and STILL NOT being able to use the highest-resolution heatmaps externally.

You have a good opportunity here for users who would want that.