The recognition is worse, but the integration is awful. Now Gemini needs to connect to the map with a noticeable delay, and if I click something on the map, Gemini often doesn't know and continues to harass me!

I think the best voice control was whatever was in the iphone 3gs. I distinctly remember being in my car and saying something along the lines of "iphone play deadmau5" and it just worked. I may have had to hold a button to activate voice mode, I don't remember, I just remember always finding Siri and related "modern" voice control software to be worse than whatever I had on that iphone.