Not for me it wasn't and it wasn't for the vast majority of people who had the issue. The missing North and South thing was a big miss by Garmin
I don't doubt that. It was all part of a major cock up at Garmin. The reason I mentioned my experience was that it is possible that the OP had the same issue with just parts of the maps missing. This was very difficult to spot as the device just said it had both maps. Many others could have had the same issue without knowing it as it would only show up then you actually rode in those missing areas or tried to plot detailed routes in them. Later updates fixed the problem so we will never know how many had missing segments. In my case the map ran out as I was leaving Calais, had I been on a longer trip and not just a one day booze run then I would have run back into detailed maps further south. Luckily I had an openstreetmaps version on the device.
John