[Google Pixel 7 Pro] simplepinoi177:
I don't know what happened or if what I did had anything to do with things or it merely just randomly came back and got enabled, or Google somehow remotely enabled it, but it's back for me now!

I was checking on the problem and observed that I still couldn't do it -- when I would mark a local point of interest a few blocks away for directions and selected the mode of travel as walking, it would only show the walking route or steps -- and, without leaving the google maps app, literally the next minute when I decided to check my wife's shared location, I noticed there was a "live" button on the bottom right of the map, clicked it, and it showed me the tutorial of using Live View and I was able to see the AR signposts showing me where her location/direction was in relation to where I am in the room. Right after, I checked to see if it would only show the Live View option in shared location circumstance, and did the exact thing I've been doing since last night by marking a local point of interest a few blocks away for directions, and now there's a button in between "Start" & "steps" where there wasn't literally a minute ago! Even if I don't click "Live View", the small little button for it is there on the bottom left of the map while navigating to the local POI.

I don't know if it was specifically being in the the shared location service (I seriously highly doubt it, but who knows...), selecting "live" while using that service, or Google (for whatever reason) coincidentally just happened to enable it remotely just as I was in that service/circumstance, but it's there and I'm relieved and grateful!

I don't intend to use it soon, but I do use it as I am constantly finding new places/restaurants to see & try in The City (SF) and parking is terrible so I'm always walking a couple of blocks searching for it (there's hardly any luck finding parking right in front of the place or destination, and many times when visiting 2 destinations near enough to each other, it's just simpler and easier to walk the .3 miles than get back in the car and try to find parking again) and I find the option very useful and handy (as well as using any AR being really "neat") versus just looking down at a map and observing how close a blue dot gets to the red icon/sign then physically looking around.

All I can think of, is if it wasn't Google or it somehow enabling after connecting to their server (server check?), maybe it was disabling the safetynet fix & systemless host module, restarting, and then re-enabling it and restarting -- although I did this last night, the "Live View" wasn't showing up the hour after I did this last night before just giving up sleeping and it working now, this morning. That, or the constantly installing previous versions and updating it to current (mine is beta), but then again it didn't work the hour after I did all these things and only started working/enabled itself this morning....

EDIT: one thing I now only remember doing...in a fit of desperation...was I did add it to the DenyList (there was a lot of sub-entries to tick) right before giving up and going to sleep....

In any case, hopefully SkylinesHD or anyone else who may have issues with it has this resolved like me; for whatever reason it went away or comes back....😅