[eru]

Untrained driver + Google Maps sits on a different point on the cost / benefit curve than Driver-with-the-Knowledge.

Different customers might prefer different total packages on different occasions.

I for one rarely need the more expensive Driver-with-the-Knowledge option, especially when I can ask Google many of the same questions.

[Pamar]

I may concede that it can perform “adequately at a lower price point” (I use Google myself when I am not in my hometown), but the parent wasn’t talking about price.

[eru]

I went off the phrase "A machine can indeed do a better job [..]" and was seeing the price as a big part of that package.

Looks we agree about everything that we actually made explicit. The disagreement was about the implicit meaning of whether price was included in the meaning of 'better job'.