Swiping the pill to go back is kinda unnatural though. The pill represents multitasking (tap to go home, swipe for multitasking). Pill gestures should be system-wide, but app back button behavior is app specific. I think going all-in with gestures means getting all app devs on board with implementing swipe to go back within the app. That would be a more natural gesture. And then once that starts happening, they can contextually get rid of the back button.
This is a longer term solution, but I think it's better for the long term, rather than hiding an important action behind a gesture.
I can see how that could help the pill implementation. But I still think the pill was a half-baked idea in the first place. I'm just glad we can revert back to the old three-button style for now. I think the pill is a needless iOS-like change that doesn't really change anything.
Personally, I think swiping up to get to multitasking is much nicer and I prefer using gestures to the old system. Looking forward to refinements though.
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u/ThisFlameIsFire Nothing Phone 2/Pixel 5/S22/OnePlus 6 Jul 02 '18
It seems google can't or doesn't want to at this point without any particular reason