I continue to find this map to be pretty strange, but one thing that I find less surprising is that there are lots of Democrats aren't thrilled by it
https://twitter.com/aaronlarnavarro/status/1441122277161152512?s=20
I think it's strange in a few ways. One is that it goes through a lot of twists and turns to achieve relatively little? Taking all of their general goals/choices for granted, IDK what they've gained over this simple one--which has the added edge of the 35% Latino VAP CD as D+20 
Another strange thing is that the maps gradually became somewhat less fair and more GOP leaning, by partisan fairness metrics, and I'm not really sure why. Even the preliminary plan--which seems more reasonable to me on other respects--was met with some push back from Democrats
One thing that is not really surprising to me is that there are three GOP CDs. I understand why that upsets some Democrats, but it's hard to get to 6-2 without weirdness on the western slope. But I am surprised that the earlier push back didn't lead to a more Dem median CD
(Another alternative to a more Dem-friendly 5-3 split might have been something like 4-2-2, by allowing enough western slope weirdness to make it narrowly Biden, while still more-or-less leaving the region intact)
One factor is that IIRC there was push back against the San Luis Valley/Pubelo in the eastern Colorado CD; fixing that forces the Denver metro CDs into the ski slopes, etc. I don't really think that's an overriding consideration, personally, but if it was it might help explain
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