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the videos just don't hit the same without the dancing anime girl and the electronic dance music.
My favourite part from the first video is how much effort it took to drag up from the bottom of the screen to get back to the home-screen. This reflects my experience with how iOS handles touch gestures in general.. also super easy to accidentally activate "Reachability" mode!
The reason they're having trouble is because they're in the simulator.

Also, if reachability bothers you like it does me, you can disable it.

Seriously I want a physical home button again
You say this, but have you tried an old iPhone recently? I did, and it was actually pretty terrible. The quick little swipes to switch between apps is so much more natural now.
Perhaps if you know how. Watching my dad use his iPhone.. Every time have to teach him something new, and hope he remembers it.

So stupid interface. No discoverability.

Whenever I use my wife's iphone I feel like an idiot. I've been working in tech for 20 years
I recently learned you can swipe on the address bar in Android-Chrome to navigate to the next/previous tab. Also, press+hold on the tab count button to show the tab's options e.g. close tab. Now my address bar is on the bottom of the screen.

Terrible discoverability. I guess the genalpha kids know gestures like this, but stuff like this makes me feel like a boomer.

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Try going back to thumb typing, no long press symbols , and no cursor movement from your spacebar. I've almost thrown my test iPhone at work across a room more times than I'd like to admit (since it doesn't belong to me)...
I wish. The iPhone 5S is the last one I can reliably type on. Idk what they did to screw up the hitboxes.
Yes, my wife has an iPhone 6, I wish I had that. Though half of that is the jack.
I will keep my SE 3rd gen a looong time for that specific reason
We peaked in the early 00s with warez key generators featuring banger synth tracks.
You might enjoy Dubmood - Lost Floppies Vol 3, released this year.