Driving/walking directions? Reliability? Traffic? Street View?
I imagine it’s a combination but curious in general what would a competitor need to master to change the conversation, if OSM isn’t there yet.
OSM has a ton of features, but the most useful ones to people who use Google Maps just aren't dead simple to use. Maybe they should make a directions-specific app. I'm not sure how good the directions are since I've only managed to use it a couple times before getting frustrated and switching back to Google Maps.
I'd love to see a competitor who could make that experience a little smoother. Navigating in streetview is more like a slide show than a drive.
Regarding your point about driving being more of a slide show: Mapillary in OsmAnd can 'drive' you along streets quite smoothly. Of course, there are are some artifacts from deforming the images, but it doesn't 'move and load' like Google Street View, it continuously moves and keeps the images at a constant quality.