That’s your choice as a consumer.

You can pay a one time fee for Maps+.

If it’s not viable for you, that’s a you problem.

If only there was some alternative like paying for the software you use 🙄

It’s not locked, build it yourself or download the apk from fdroid. If that is too complicated for you (or anyone else), maybe pay for the service being provided then?

7900XTX back in January. I didn’t see any error, it would just boot to a black screen. I tried the install several times and I’ve been distro hopping for decades, so I don’t think it’s a simple pebcak.

Bazzite shit the bed when I tried it, regular people would need to get lucky with their hardware configuration.