That is a good point that I missed in my list. In fact, I think in a recent update, they made the pins dots in an apparent attempt to declutter the map view. No

That is a good point that I missed in my list. In fact, I think in a recent update, they made the pins dots in an apparent attempt to declutter the map view. Now what you described got even worse, because the points have an even smaller hit box than the pins.