What I'm really trying to say is that it's hard to find a map that treats the storyline with as much importance as the gameplay. I'm fine with a bit of fancy redstone (in fact I find it pretty cool) but a map can definitely be excellent without redstone at all (might I mention Levi's Nightmare). I am in the middle of creating an RPG-like adventure of my own with a fairly linear storyline to it, so I know, firsthand, the difficulties of creating such adventures, but it's well worth the effort if you know what you're doing. In essence, there is a lot to play around with. Simple circuits can still work as well, but to make a truly effective and awe-inspiring adventure, a fair amount of knowledge of redstone and commands/ command blocks is necessary- not to mention, the use of external game editors to have custom entities and items as well. To be honest, a lot of the complicated redstone machinery are required to give an adventure an extra twist, like using firework entities as a way to show spell trails or to make scripted NPC events and the like, and to do so in a way that doesn't make the world too messy, such as placing pressure plates all over.

What happened to hypixel adventure maps