That hasn't been my experience at all. I think maybe it feels more like a maze because when you go-to-definition you often don't actually check where you are in the filesystem, so you don't build a mental map of the repo as quickly as you do when you are forced to manually search through all the files. But I wouldn't say that is better.

Kind of like how you don't learn an area when you always use satnav as quickly as you do when you manually navigate with paper maps. But do you want to go back to paper maps? I don't.