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Darth Maul's survival doesn't bother me. It's not as bad as resurrecting Palpatine because Darth Maul wasn't the arch antagonist that the story was about defeating and Maul's defeat wasn't a major event that was undone, like Anakin sacrificing his life to kill Palpatine. It doesn't really ruin the narrative.
As for the actual mechanism behind his survival, I suppose being cut in half and falling down a reactor shaft is a step up from being tossed down a reactor shaft. These articles say that Filoni was tasked by Lucas to come up with a means to resurrect Maul, and Filoni says “He’s suffered through a lot to keep himself alive and implemented the training of his master to do so.”
His survival might be a matter of looking at his character incorrectly. He's viewed as being a pure weapon of Palpatine, a one dimensional Sith Lord that can act as an assassin and has no motives of his own beyond obeying Palpatine. Perhaps Darth Maul was a fully capable Sith that was immensely strong in the Force and was planning to usurp Palpatine as the master? That he didn't return to Palpatine's service despite his survival might suggest that. And if he's using his master's training to do so, and Filoni is an EU fan, perhaps Maul's survival is explained in a way that makes more sense:
But I like Dark Empire.
Also, earlier I was running through my mind characters that died, whether literally or inconclusively, and were brought back, and I completely forgot about Starkiller (twice).
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