All Google stuff ended up doing this when they started trying to standardize their "design language" across their services. They developed a very annoying habit of hiding every useful function or bit of relevant contextual information inside a poorly marked hamburger menu somewhere. It's extremely annoying from a discoverability perspective and I strongly suspect any UX designers involved lost a lot of arguments for a decision like that to get codified.
Is there a single person who prefers the monochrome GMail UI where you can't easily visually parse one thread from another, or the "new and improved" functionality where you need to click at least 2 or 3 times to even SEE what address you're sending to or from, or to change the subject?
I've stuck with Android until now, but now that I can replace the keyboard on iPhone I gave it a chance and I'm super happy with it.
iPhone 7 I had is noticeably laggy with maps and other heavy apps.
Meanwhile my Samsung S10e (equivalent to the XR) has more than sufficient performance and has a better screen for a lower price.
My point is that my current iPhone is the first phone since my Samsung S2 that hasn't disappointed me by being slow more or less immediately after unboxing it.
The thing with Google Maps was that it was actually reasonably good and intuitive on mobile until sometime 5 or 7 years ago when someone decided it had to be "simplified".
The old version was easy: you enter "to" and "from", and it gives you a route.
I think it also had multiple entry points so you could choose "navigate", "browse" and "timeline" or something directly from the system menu.
The "simplified" version removed all that + the timeline feature I think and replaced it with one search box.
The timeline came back after a while as did a number of other features they removed but it still isn't as easy or intuitive as the early versions and it still annoys me every time I want to get a route from A to B (as opposed to from where I am now to B).
Compare this to Windows 95 that I disliked for a few months until I got used to system wide drag and drop and realized it was in fact better than Windows 3.1.