I just sort by food type and 4+ stars. That usually filters list down to something where algos can't inject too much weirdness. Or at least I assume it doesn't. I think my medium density city has not enough options that a filtered list won't return almost everything, confirmed by me being familiar with my neighbourhood and what is returned. But I imagine in denser cities it would be PIA (how much results return for 4 start sushi in middle of Tokyo). All of which is to say, unlike other Google services, so far I can't tell if default Google Maps is getting better or worse over time and I use it all the time.