I tried the new maps when they first released it. Clearly the search was different in some ways because simple directions searches simple wouldn't work. Since the, obviously, they have ironed out those bugs. But in the intervening years, every time I've tried the "new" maps I've run screaming back to the "old" maps because of the terrible UX. Are the search results "worse"? Maybe not. But the same results presented in a nearly-unusable manner probably "feels" like worse results.
