To be honest, although the front end is different, in use it is, unsurprisingly, not that different from VR, OS or even a Garmin, that is if you have the right level of membership. The nearest description would be the OS app with all the useful additional information that VR has, but the OS app does not, bolted on in one display. Now that I have had a couple of goes, in some ways I prefer the nav screen to VR. That said, it is not as tunable as VR as an app There is no difference in the way it behaves between it and VR, when your phone sleeps, or at least not with my Samsung. The OS app is far worse, I have turned that back on and found large chunks of track missing.
No I have not used the accommodation element - not a thing I need with my kind of walking. Perhaps later.