“But for most of our use cases, we don’t need the latest and greatest. And Mapbox has gotten expensive.”
The Washington Post swapped Mapbox for OpenMapTiles, Maputnik, Maplibre and a single PMTiles file on S3 served by a Lambda. Maplibre is the fork of mapbox-gl-js from before Mapbox moved off an open source license. Mapbox built its business on OpenStreetMap and open code, then closed the doors and raised prices. Its customers are walking out through the fork it left behind.