This problem began even in the 1980s. I'd ask HS students to draw a map of the route from the school to their house. The majority of students couldn't do that, in a rural town where it was a few miles in a bus or car. Map skills and awareness of surroundings were on the decline even back then. Now, with GPS, they're becoming nonexistent.
Losing the intellectual process of being able to define and determine ones path through ones environment is disturbing.
Yeah, they lose the old problem solving skills but acquire new ones. Most of those kids seem to be able to creatively accomplish things using apps that most of us oldsters would not dream of. It’s still a toolbox, but its a different set of tools.