Their reasoning was that X11 network transparency had been broken for quite some time. If you tried running chrome, most games, or anything with modern hardware acceleration over X11 forwarding, they wouldn’t work.
So, IMHO waypipe is actually an improvement in terms of compatibility, rather than a regression.
You can use yelp for reviews. IIRC Apple maps reviews go to Yelp by default so there’s a decent amount of reviews for most places.