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The optimal route will often change during my commute. Your commute may be significantly shorter than mine.

I did do that for sometime but I found that my commute has gotten worse with more accidents and constructions so I'm finding that almost 40% of the time my commute changes with Waze with new routes saving me tons of time in traffic. Plus it allows me to explore the country side more as a side-effect.

Yeah, I tend to do this, but rarely (about once in a couple of months) traffic gets so bad on a specific part of my commute (where I literally have no viable alternative routes) that I'd wished I'd kept it on so I could turn around and just WFH.

Waze has saved me a couple of times where I find that out 5-10m through the drive and just turn around so I don't sit through important meeting in the car.

Google/Apple maps just don't update fast enough as they're not crowdsourced.