Doesn't bringing up the topic of different projections still act as a good reminder that maps of spherical planets will always have one issue or another?

Graphical representations of things have an impact on preception and then by proxy on thinking. Maintaining aome degree of general awareness of these impacts leads to better thinking that is more reflective of the ground truth.

Some would call that "woke" with bad intentions, but hey, they got an agenda and that agaenda doesn't care about facts.