I thought it was pretty good. The pointer of where youre supposed to go is a bit shit though.

Not just you. I keep thinking I'm pressing the wrong button but it's already at max zoom. Also why does it take so long for the map to appear when you open it. No magic SSD there.

The map appears in less than a second for me on PS5. 

Just beat the main story today (bought the game on launch day). This is definitely one of my favorite games (definitely top 3). I liked GOW 2018, but found this one so much more exciting (of course it helps that I played Ragnarok when it came out as opposed to playing GOW 2018 for the first time just last year). The story was very gripping and had me tearing up at multiple times.

Still have to do postgame stuff, so there's still more left. All the praise this game receives is well deserved. It is my GOTY for 2022 (honestly haven't played a game this good since RDR2, which is my all time favorite). Hope it wins GOTY at the Game Awards! Good thing Zelda isn't releasing the same year as Ragnarok.

Yes, the map does suck and is a quibble I have had with the game as I also would love to zoom in more.  At least it does help you know if you forgot something within each particular area by selecting it but thats about all.

Yeah the checklists are very useful indeed.

Why is there a delay? I'm playing on ps5 as well and often it feels much longer than a second. The screen appears, map is blank, then it starts drawing it in. Just pop the map up, it's nothing but a bitmap.

Hmm, I do not experience this.  The map usually pops up pretty quickly on my PS5.  At least it pops up fast enough where I have not noticed any delays.

The map isn't that good, but also doesn't get in my way at all, what I need I can see with or without zoom and mark the point I want to go, the omission I would put is being able to select an empty area for beacon.

I have seem this issue as well and some other similar ones as if that portion of the code run as if on PS4 instead of being faster.