In my experience Google Maps fixed embedded maps about a year ago, it requires command-scroll to zoom and otherwise scrolls normally. I didn't realize that might be browser-specific, I'm using macos + safari.
However, it still doesn't change the fact that, on my Mac, on Google Maps proper I want to use scroll wheel or two-finger swipe equivalent to pan/scroll up-down or side-to-side like virtually every other app does, instead of zooming like virtually no other app does.
Having the scroll wheel move in y with no scroll to move in x just seems...weird.
Before that, you had to buy a book every year to keep in a glove compartment and look up street names in an alphabetical index, then go to a page number, look for a row and column and then plot a route by flipping between many pages or having traveled there before (aka getting lost) https://images.app.goo.gl/SdS9Z1rfs3HPJJwA9
Also a Google Maps innovation—trying to accurately put street numbers on a map. You’d often know, in some books, where street numbers began and ended at intersections, but it was extra detail and was often left out or entirely wrong. Of course it’s still wrong today, but street view really changed all that.
This alone convinced my father that it was worth having Internet access at home.
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531500&y=181500&z=120&sv=Lo...
Shift+scroll works as horizontal scroll in just about every place I've had reason to try it. (Outside of browsers, at least, though there I'm uncertain because everyone puts so much effort into eliminating any horizontal scroll)
Scroll wheels are still a thing in 2019 ? I can scroll in any direction using either the trackpad or a Magic Mouse in pretty much every app and website except Google Maps.