Latest update missing features – Waze Navigation & Live Traffic Review

I've liked Waze for a long time and use it daily. It's especially useful in my urban area where traffic can be unpredictable. But it seems that the developers have overreached in this latest version -- it would be great to say "Ok, Waze" and use voice commands, but when I enabled that option, it seems to override the option to pause spoken audio (like podcasts), which used to work in the old version (and in this version before I enabled "Ok,Waze." Also, it changed my navigation voice to Santa without prompting me, which would have been bad enough, but that also caused voice directions not to work at all. When I tried to switch back to my previous voice selection, I discovered that none of the voices included speech synthesis for street names, which used to work in the previous version as well. Overall, this version upgrade was a huge step backwards for Waze.
Review by keithjmiller on Waze Navigation & Live Traffic.