Like many google products, there's one or two basic features that I'd love to (re)enable to make the thing infinitely more usable for me, but which they simply

Like many google products, there's one or two basic features that I'd love to (re)enable to make the thing infinitely more usable for me, but which they simply refuse to. With google maps it's the ability to enable scale all the time, not just showing scale briefly during zoom in/out changes.