the Only interesting part is that there're more User created maps than Blizzard maps.
It's too bad that it's only melee maps that're getting recognition from blizzard.

You mean aside from the custom map spotlights they do that promote user created custom maps? I'm not sure what else they could do to recognize non-melee maps.

You may have a point, but it is very clear that Blizzard neglected custom content, and has continued doing so due to their relative inaction in that area.
Not saying that they haven't done anything at all, but nothing substantial has been done. Another way to put it is that they have done nothing that can prove that Blizzard, without a doubt, has interest in rekindling the custom map branch of this franchise that has made its original series so very loved.

Devlin, I'm not ignoring the facts here, I know they have been doing a lot of things to try to fix and make amends to the massive slap-to-the-face they gave us in the first place. They've continuously fixed the galaxy editor, made their own custom maps (with arguable success), and tried to make the custom map area of b.net 2 more accessible without doing a complete overhaul of it (with zero success). But I think one shouldn't deny that nothing truly remarkable has happened, and that the death of the Starcraft custom map era is largely due to Blizzard/Activision's negligence.

To put it into context, if Blizzard truly wants to give custom maps recognition, we should be seeing news of custom map tournaments, where competition is held at the same respect and seriousness of ladder tournaments. We should also be seeing more custom map spotlights, or at least consistent map spotlights, not whenever they want to or when Blizzard has made a custom map of their own and tries to compare it. Also, custom maps that have achieved their own niche, such as Smashcraft and Strikers, should be officially celebrated (where? I don't know, a tournament, where 3/5 maps are not made by Blizzard).

All the things that they have done so far has, arguably, only disguised the fact that they do not really care.

But, I may have spoken too soon, as HotS is coming out. Things may actually change drastically.

Haven't they tried re-doing the custom map system at least two or three times now?

False. Melee is what made sc1 "loved." We are the minority.

Custom map tournaments? Wait. Before we get into all of this random junk, let's start fixing things at the very foundations first, aye? All of that junk is irrelevant in the grand scheme, much bigger and more fundamental things need to be done before we start worrying about "spotlights" and such.

On the melee front, it's good to see Blizzard slowly letting go of their iron grip over the map pool.