If you are not used to working with maps very much, I can see that you may have good reason to prefer turn by turn. I worked with maps every day of my professional career, thus it is natural for me to prefer looking at maps. If you gave me a cue sheet to use, I most certainly would get lost. For touring, I rarely use my GPS to decide where the turns are, such as telling it I want to go to the Ikea store and letting it tell me where to turn. Have done it, but I often pick a different route anyway.

For touring, I usually set up a route or a track at home before I go. Put this in the GPS as a GPX file. Of those two options, I prefer a track over a route. That puts a thick purple line on the map and I want to follow that. I do not get any audible directions, I just have to keep checking the map on the GPS to make sure I am still on that purple line and that I did not miss a turn.

For example, my last tour, about a quarter of it was on the Empire State Trail in NY State. It was easy to create a track in Mapsource for that. (Garmin discontinued Mapsource many years ago, but I still use it to create tracks to follow.) And about a quarter of my tour was strictly on rural highways were I wanted to include a campground location in my track. I just picked roads on Google Maps that looked good to me to create my track, occasionally used street view to actually see what the roads looked like. Used two computer screens, one with google maps and one with Mapsource.

And about half of my last tour, I found on Ride W GPS two tracks that others had ridden and posted. I was following part of the Waterfront Trail in Ontario. The two tracks deviated from each other slightly. I loaded them both as tracks into my GPS. There were times I went off of those tracks, but that was my choice to go to a grocery store, or to buy butane, or deviate to a campground, or whatever.

I have also ridden several brevets where the ride was posted on Ride W GPS and I loaded it into my GPS as a track format. No audio cues, I just had to look at the map to keep following that line. Brevet rules are that you have to stay on the line, if you leave the line you go back to where you missed the turn.

Main reason I do not use turn by turn, I often choose different routing and when I do that, the audio cues drive me nuts. for example my 2019 tour, one day I wanted to leave the Hostel in Charlottetown PEI and ride to the Confederation Bridge. This was far from my original planned route from when I was at home making plans. Thus, did not have a route or track in my GPS to follow. So, I just told it to take me to the spot on the map that was the bridge. But I chose to ride on the bike trail system for maybe 75 percent of that distance. And every time I got to an intersection, my GPS told me to turn, it wanted me to take highways instead of the bike trail. I knew the highways were much more hilly than the rail trail, so I wanted to stay on the trail. The audio was driving me nuts. I eventually canceled the routing function until I got pretty close to the bridge where I left the bike trail. At that point, I do not remember if I reactivated the routing on the GPS or just used the map. But I think that was the last time I told my GPS to take me to a point on the map using internal routing where it tells me where to turn.

But, both options exist, I think it is personal preference.