About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth

Google explains in their blogs why it had pre-Katrina maps for New Orleans.

This is a follow up to the article where Google Maps had pre Katrina maps on their database, which created quite a stir and Senate requesting them to explain why they had pre Katrina maps in Google Maps. Today Google is giving the following reasons for it. After the Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, a group of volunteers worked with NOAA, NASA and others to post updated imagery of the affected areas in Google Maps and Google Earth very quickly. This data was used as a reference by a number of people affected by the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Google said many thanked them for putting effective maps so they could use it for rescue operations. In September 2006, this storm imagery was replaced with pre-Katrina aerial photography because of higher resolution in those pictures compared to the later ones, they did this all across the world to enhance Google Maps. But they kept the Katrina imagery and associated overlays on a dedicated site for reference http://earth.google.com/katrina.html . Google said: Our goal throughout has been to produce a global earth database of the best quality -- accounting for timeliness, resolution, cloud cover, light conditions, and color balancing. Google was shocked to hear the various comments from the public about the pre-Katrina aerial photography. So to alleviate it, they have expedited this matter by processing the recent aerial photography of the Gulf Coast area that is equal in resolution to the per-Katrina shots. These new data were published in Google Earth and Google Maps on Sunday evening. Google said in the end that it wasn't intentional on their part to rewrite history, would like to show as it is in high resolution images in Google Maps. I checked the Google Maps here, they look fine now. The explanation by Google is fine, but they should have put a sidebar in the maps to inform the public. Are you satisfied with Google's explanation?