Lately, I get the feeling that google maps were handed over to a spazzy Gen Z product manager. Its UI is a mess (for me) and also it seems to be doubling down on advertisements gooogle map alternatives. I thought to try Waze but was put off when it asked me what sort of ads I’d like to see :(

So are there any good, paid alternatives out there? In my limited experience, the problem with non-google apps is that the search functionality is always inferior, to google, but that was some years ago and maybe it changed and they’re using google itself for search.