And it's plain wrong.
Steve was alive when the G3 iBooks had thousand units recalled for logic board problems. Steve was alive when the Mac Pro oozed some green cooling liquid. Steve was alive when they had problems with (Sony) batteries and have to recall them. Still was alive when the created Ping. Steve was alive when they made the menubar translucent. Steve was alive when Lion had several problems to lots of users. Etc etc...
It's a BS notion that anything wrong with Apple is because somehow Steve isn't here. Especially when the Maps have a perfectly valid explanation: Apple had to prepare something quick, because the couldn't use Google Maps anymore for political/contractual/competitive whatever reasons...
It's not as if mapping the planet electronically and with information that changes is an easy job, else somebody else besides Google would have also done it. It takes years, tons of money, cutting edge tech and the like.