Yep I specifically keep Google Maps around to find restaurants even though I far prefer the audible navigation from Apple Maps nowadays once I actually want to drive there.
i do the same. Plus Apple Maps handles audio and lock screen much better. Apple must be calling a private API to manage lock screen during driving. When I drive with Google Maps, the screen locks and blocks navigation
I've noticed that Apple Maps incorporated their own rating system some time ago (I want to say within the last one or two years); it's simple, just asking you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down on certain businesses, sometimes with a bit of granularity (e.g., rate the atmosphere, food, value, and service separately). There appears to be some threshold for how many ratings they have when they switch from displaying Yelp reviews to their own stuff, although it's not clear what the heuristic is.
Anyway, tl;dr: I think they're working on replacing Yelp.
Especially since there were apparently complaints that Yelp was doing pay-to-play with good reviews for a while, which diminishes the truthiness value of any reviews:
(Anecdotally, I also seem to be seeing this on Google Maps now! It seems like highly rated but local restaurants don't even show up on the map at all until I zoom in literally to the building -- perhaps because the owners don't pay for ads? Crazy if true... and Bing maps seem to not have all the restaurants or ratings, and you can't seem to filter based on rating either, which seems like a massive Bing fail. Maybe the review apps were always destined to crumble under a business model that encourages dishonesty on both sides..)
