The money flow matters. It matters because those are jobs that Americans aren't getting. That friend of yours in the US that down on their luck and looking for a job? That's a job they could be doing. The Everyone driving for Uber could be doing it from their living room in the US. The money that Waymo riders are spending is going to other countries, not America. I'd pay more for an all American company who had remote drivers in the US.

I'd trust Manilla drivers over Miami drivers any day. They are tempered in a hotter furnace

Right, I don't think it matters at all.

Kids in the PI are much better at paying attention to traffic, because it is utter fucking chaos in Manila, routing by a school is not particularly interesting. So they might feel better about providing waypoint near a school in the US than an American person would -- not realizing US children are comparatively retarded to Filipino children in dealing with traffic.