Every single map is inaccurate in a way, I suggest you read How to lie with maps by Mark Monmonier.
Every single map that's not a globe, anyway... And even those are technically lies, since the Earth is not perfectly spherical.
And more generally, "the map is not the territory".
I wouldn't be surprised if climate affected our adventurousness, though, which this projection doesn't capture. I find ice cold seas a lot more forbidding.
Climate has varied a bit over the years though. And Alaskan summers seem quite inviting.