iOS 5 maps, Apple why did you ruin it?

I used to never have to touch my phone when it would display directions to my destination, I would just watch my blue dot travel along the long blue line, now it only highlights the current step of the directions in blue and the rest of the directions are very faded, so now I have to keep hitting Next, Next, Next etc to select the next step in order for it to highlight that portion of the directions. I Hate this and I'm sure everybody who uses their iphone's MAPS for navigation will agree.

I don't understand what possible reason apple could have had to make users suddenly have to Keep Interacting with the phone to follow directions, I don't need my hands on the anything but the wheel while I'm driving!!