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Google Maps is a pretty big application. Have you considered that this might have been a mistake? Refactoring legacy codebases isn't always without regressions.

If you file a bug report (especially if there are a bunch of others filing them) then the people in charge of this stuff won't be able to claim they didn't know about it.

Open maps > help and feedback > send feedback

And remember, Every good bug report needs exactly three things:

1) Steps to reproduce, 2) What you expected to see, and 3) What you saw instead