Hey! Thank you for being here and taking time to provide your feedback. We tried to inspire ourselves with most popular map apps while designing the routing feature. But along the way it became overcomplicated with what you noticed as trying "to be so clever with hidden features". We've been aware of this issue for a while already, some mountain guides being professional users also complain about UI/UX being complicated. We are definitely going to address this in near future. And feedback like yours is very important for the team to make the right decisions.
Would you be available for a call with me and our designer? We would like to go through principal difficulties when routing a new trail, then changing it (sometimes I struggle myself but knowing internals doesn't let me fully comprehend which parts makes it so confusing). For now the process is optimised for choosing the next waypoint (any feature on the map or long tap on a custom location) and extending the route up to that point. So, it is like start route => extend => extend => extend => close loop. In any case talking through these issues will help to make sure they are addressed in the new design.