That is how it works now. That is not how it worked in the past, and presumably that is what they are referring to. I have many memories of jumping into an Uber

That is how it works now. That is not how it worked in the past, and presumably that is what they are referring to. I have many memories of jumping into an Uber Black in SF (before UberX existed) and saying cross-streets. It took a while into the evolution to add the destination picker, let alone make it required.