An accident inside an accident

I have never been particularly fond of “shake to undo” on the iPhone. It’s not a pleasant gesture to perform, I feel like typically I don’t have strong enough of a grip on my iPhone to invoke it without fear, and the gesture often undertriggers, requiring an even harder and more cumbersome shake, etc. etc. (One thing I never want to undo is my screen’s pristine surface by having it meet the sidewalk.) I am aware that many years ago, iOS introduced an alternative: a three-finger swipe. But I feel like Apple flubbed that, also – three fingers are hard to plop onto a small screen, and while regular going back navigation means swiping from left to right, undo is inexplicably a three-finger right-to-left swipe. I mean, okay, it’s explicable – it’s the movement of the cursor before and after the typing is undone. But to my brain that feels less strong than the other association, and undo is not always about typing. I also see many people not knowing about this alternative and I must not be…