In the end, if elected represenatives are incapable of drawing a coherent map because it conflicts with their own interests then who should remediate the issue?
In any case a there should be no bulges or boots, the lines should be relatively smooth and the similar interests of the people located therein should be the driving force.
That the court felt compelled to do it speaks badly of the politicians of PA. The same thing happened in New York and in the end it was better for the people.
If the Republicans come up short, then go and win those seats instead of bitching.
If you want all that then you really need to amend the US Constitution.
The Constitution is silent on all of that. It merely says that drawing the lines is the job of the State Legislature.
Part of the chaos in this country is that people keep using the Courts to short-circuit the duly provided Constitutional processes.
More like Democrat-appointed judges changed the map to benefit Democrats.
These days, the population should be fed to a computer program, and it should spit out a map that was completely reproducible by anyone with a computer. Districts would be as near as square as possible, with perhaps a slight bias towards city or county boundary lines. It shouldn't consider race or political affiliation.
Naturally, any such map that is demonstrably unbiased would be immediately challenged by democrat partisans.