I can get to/from work four different ways. I want to know which way is the fastest. It gets tiring turning GPS on on/off every day just before using Maps.
It could (and should) be possible to specifically activate location services, or to otherwise indicate your location, when using an application which specifically requires it. For, say, 5 minutes. Or 15, or 1 hour.
Turning this into a chore is just a cattleprod moving you along the gate to that chute dumping you in the "GPS always on" mode.
I am hypersensitive to such manipulations, and take a hard turn in the opposite direction.