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I had it turned off for many years and caved about a year ago.

Because: -it asks me every time I open it. Every day. -it won’t save places or favorites -it won’t save local maps -it won’t save my home address or common routes

Basically, they don’t do any local storage and force you to share data with google to get “basic” functionality that Apple Maps and other maps apps provide because storing local settings is dead simple (although local settings are encrypted and synced to cloud and can’t be read or used for analysis).