(Obviously you can find friends who don’t care for it and you can live a normal life and be just fine. I’m privacy conscious but I still share my location with a handful of friends for the above reasons.)
You have quite a few granular choices.
> You can share your current location once, temporarily share your location while you're on the way to an expected destination, or share your ongoing Live Location... for an hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely.
In Messages, you can use Check In to share your location... Your location is shared only if there's an unexpected delay during your trip or activity and you're unresponsive.
Is the implication of this that such people just don't interact with Android users? That seems like a significant self-imposed limitation. Or are Android phones just extremely unpopular in your area?