WTF?<p>Google maps, for me and I think for vast numbers of users, has always been a zero-bullshit application to use when you need to quickly find specific location or directions, where _pertinent_ information is displayed and "frills" stay tucked behind menu selections.<p>Even a small amount of cruft degrades the user experience. I don't need stupid ass April Fool's day pranks from Google. It is not cute and I am not amused. Corporations suck at humor anyway.<p>Even more disturbing is that somebody at Google dreamed this up, and got together a team of engineers to crank this out. And at what cost in labour? 100's of thousands? Don't they have better things to do?