Effects would remain quite reasonable because only the second field of the panel would be wider. Quite a small concession - especially regarding the fact that Kurviger can use fullscreen mode by now.
But then you’d be able to recognize if you’re currently approaching a certain waypoint. After all this function could even be an option in the settings (“use names in waypoint panel”). I think managing and identifying certain stopover waypoints easily is an essential feature if using routes.
Additionally to such a display feature it would be great if it would be possible to tap on that panel to switch through all the (unvisited) waypoints of the current route so that you’re able to select a certain waypoint to be displayed in this panel. Because most of the times you’re heading for a certain waypoint as next stopover so it often may be more useful to see the distance to that special (and most probably named) waypoint than simply to the next waypoint in the route. Long pressing the panel could be used to quickly select the final stop as displayed information. Or using some alternative UI method like already discussed here.
Yes I noticed (and tested 
) that. But if you have a larger route with more waypoints you might have to “try” various waypoints until you got the right one. So marking special waypoints (e.g. with a different color) would improve the overview where those waypoints are.
Oh no - this certainly would clutter the display completely 
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The idea is to be able to recognize special waypoint quicker while being on tour. Maybe because there’s a restaurant for a planned stopover, a parking lot to meet other buddies or a certain location to be visited.
This would especially useful if you want to have a quick glance during a short stop by switching from navigation mode to the map view (“ah - only three waypoint left until we’ll reach our first stopover”).
I think the new simulation feature is very useful for testing without being on the road.