It's nasty, and more than an annoyance it really endangers drivers and residents. I had a job a few years back with a lot of driving and Google maps would route me through a random residential street with houses to switch between two main roads that run parallel. I could tell that was happening to other drivers too both commuters and work vehicles. It was really unacceptable the algorithm would route this way because the dead obvious direction should've been 'left turn on to this road when you get off the freeway, right turn onto the road you want'.

Yeah it's been really bad the last 6-12 months i reckon

love doing left-right-left-right through eight different narrow alleys to go semi-diagonally instead of making one turn on a normal road and get there quicker and easier

Google maps routing has always been bad, and has never been good. Only ever use it to find where your destination is, then make your own way there.