Why Hexagon??

Actually, there are a few reasons:

• It is much easier to code in a square tile grid. A hexagonal grid is much harder to implement.
• The brain is not used to hexagonal grid, it is harder to judge space and distance.
• Pixel sprites does not respond well to being rotated 30 or 60 degrees. I would need to make 2 to 6 versions of a single sprite.

Take an arrow, for example:

So Why???

Because hexagons are the bestagons. https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY