While whatever EU regulation root cause of this is likely annoying and overbearing, I personally
hate the embeddings of Google Maps into Google Search results.
This is true for both maps and photos of restaurants which expand in a tiny popup rather than the full screen view you get on maps.
Because as is always the case with these kinds of product embeddings, the UX is always subtly different, and a bunch of features are missing.
If ever I search for something that I realize I'd like to view in maps instead, I click the top bar "maps" to redo the search in maps and then have a consistent view.
So at least in this particular case, i don't think it's a big loss.
