There are two web versions of Google Maps. There's the horrible one that you can reach from the search results page if you made a specifically commercial-local request, like [1]. There is the same thing on proper Google Maps[2].

1: https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:9&tbm=lcl&...

2: https://www.google.com/maps/search/lunch+downtown+berkeley/@...

I feel there are a number of "modes", or, I don't know, "levels" maybe, that offer different features and are not intuitive (for me). I think a long time ago, you were either on the map, or you were in navigation, or you were in Street View. But now I get the impression that there's steps in between, like: you have maybe soft-selected a route, but you're not quite in navigation mode, yet you're unable to drop a pin somewhere else, so you have to go back without knowing how many steps exactly, that sort of funny business.