How to get regular google maps back on iPhone after ios6 "up(down)grade"

Hoping someone from Apple will contact me about this.
I recently downloaded the ios 6 (I hesitate to call it an upgrade at this point) and now my maps look like absolute garbage.
I would like Google Maps back, properly (not the web app). I've read about downgrading to ios5.1.1 on other forums, but apple does not support it, and I'm afraid of bricking my iphone, or loosing my data and settings that I've spent many months refining.
So, I'm asking you, Apple, to please figure something out for those of us who would like to go back in time and have the original phone we purchased. The maps app is absolutely useless to me at this point. If a solution is not given in a timely manner, I promise that my next phone and my next tablet will be an android (planning on upgrading both in about 1 year when my phone contract is up). I'm sure many others are also thinking the same thing.
I think it's absolutely insane that you would break people's devices and not offer to revert back to 10 minutes ago before we started the download. This kind of planned obsolesence will only create irritated customers who will switch to a platform that doesn't tie your hands up and take away features on a whim.
The only way to salvage your reputation from this flub is to fix it. NOW!

ekimztom wrote:
Hoping someone from Apple will contact me about this.
These are user to user forums.  You are not addressing Apple by posting here, and nobody from Apple will contat you.
If anyting , your post will be deleted as ranting and complaining are a violation of the terms of use you agreed to when signing up to use the forums.

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