I do not see the logic in this. Many skins provide better choices than just fixing the 3 fields at bottom, which by the way take the place of current street and doesn't really clear up any more screen space for map. I even argued that having data fields at the side instead of occupying the middle of map is better. I want to see more middle than side of a map. Personally, I only care about distance to destination. Some skins even provide option to switch between seeing one or all fields with a single click. But my favorite skin ability is timed display where a set fields are shown when the display is touched and disappeared after some time.
NextGen default skin, to me, looks much cleaner. But then that's another story.