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Maps has been increasingly awful about trying to help when it shouldn't.

Features like 'warn about location closure' and 'recenter screen after accidental touches' are great, but they're so aggressive that simple tasks like "let me scroll over and see where I'm going" involve consciously trying to outwit the UI.

It sort of feels like there's user testing or datagathering showing all false positive errors ("they bumped it then had to hit recenter"), but no data being counted up to see the false negatives ("they scrolled 15 times as undid each action").




>Maps has been increasingly awful about trying to help when it shouldn't.

A lot of Google products seem to be competing to become the new Clippy.


They are shooting for the MS BOB experince.




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