[cl3misch]

In this context (driving in central Europe) I've found Apple Maps to choose the conventional route more often. The trip may be slightly longer but more enjoyable, for the exact reasons you mentioned. Google Maps indeed seems to be weighted towards stressful shortcuts.

[tasuki]

More enjoyable? Conventional routes are rarely what I'd call enjoyable. Convenient, perhaps.

A month ago I was driving hundreds of kilometers across Poland, and Google sent me from a freeway through a comfy road to a literal dirt road with holes, which after ten kilometers led us back to a large asphalt road. That was fun!