https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-ove...
As for being a second rate app, that was once true, but isn’t now.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/13/compared-apple-ma...
It seems that you are unaware that Google maps uses location data to make ads follow you around. That seems like a pretty good reason for Apple to protect its users from Google’s data collection machine.
Apple Maps still sends people to strange places when you leave the city. (Apple Maps once sent us to the middle of a farm field, which was funny at the time, so I was glad it happened.)
Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me.
Additionally nothing stops you from using Google Maps on iOS, or Waze for that matter, another Google Mapping product renowned for good traffic data.
In any case it sounds like you would prefer tighter integration of Google products into the OS, and have no problem with them collecting data on you.
In this case why not just use Android?