[eecc]

Don’t get me started with all the impressive rotating zooming in Google Maps every time you accidentally brush the screen.

The usage story requires you to switch to turn-by-turn, and there’s no way to have bird eye map following your location along route (unless you just choose some zoom level and manually recenter every so often.)

It’s awful, distracting and frankly a waste of time... just to show a bit of animation every time I accidentally fail to register a drag...

Damn Ui

[TeMPOraL]

Well, Google Maps is its own story - it's like the app is being actively designed to be as useless as possible as a map - a means to navigate. The only supported workflow is search + turn-by-turn navigation, and everything else seems to be disincentivized on purpose.