I actually really liked my last game as Maya with Ancestral Hall, I think it's situational but getting two free builders when founding a city is crazy strong (particularly if you have serfdom inserted). Maya can surprisingly go quite tall if you have lots of flatland; chopping jungles and immediately planting farms is wonderful. You also want to make sure you have all your plantations built ASAP so you can reap the gold/science bonuses from them. I was running +50 GPT in the early game with 1 trade route thanks to the tile improvements.
Another fun strategy with Ancestral Hall Maya is keeping the first builder in the new city to improve it, while moving the second straight to the 'chop city' in order to churn out more builders.
To me, Audience Chamber is just... meh. Yeah +4 housing and +2 amenities are great and all, but that loyalty malus is totally unnecessary and kills it for me. Because Maya are so tied to their homeland, I find myself not exploring as far as I might otherwise and not getting as much era score. For Maya, if you settle next to a luxury you already get another amenity, and in any case the AC's bonuses don't apply to non-governor cities so you're only getting -2 loyalty there. I don't know, I really appreciate the new Maya and the fact there's more than one way to play them.