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How is maps getting worse? You don't like the colours?
For the last year (at least for me and people I know) Google Maps has been suggesting batshit insane alternate routes and then conninuously suggesting you turn around and take the already longer route.
I went on a road trip, it was not uncommon to see it suggest an alternate route with +2 or more hours. Then it would suggest you turn around and follow said route for 30 minutes (with the delay increasing as you drive further away from the alternate).
There's something weird with gmaps but it still works. I wonder if its some kind of test to see if people will just blindly follow alternates for some goal of theirs.
You may want to try going into Maps settings->Navigation settings and turn off "Prefer fuel-efficient routes" as it tries to pick poor routes to keep speed down to save gas, and it is enabled by default.
Their navigation was already mediocre at mapping successfully to a destination, now they're trying to map down secondary roads they have even less knowledge about to pretend to be "green" annnd...stupidity ensues.
I'm looking to replace it because of the ads.
The colors are objectively worse. Nighttime navigation contrast is zero. Even the bloody text is hard to read.
I've missed turns because the chosen route and other roads are indistinguishable. I should be focused on driving, not squinting try to read their shitty gray-on-slightly-different-gray text.
Someone is going to die in a crash because they didn't test a fucking theme.