What this article misses is that a lot of these features are shortcuts for things that are not essential or you could achieve in other ways. These are generall

What this article misses is that a lot of these features are shortcuts for things that are not essential or you could achieve in other ways. These are generally referred to as accelerators, and are by design harder to discover as they are targeted at expert users. You trade learnability for convenience and efficiency (also less clutter, which should not be underestimated). Good article on this: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ui-accelerators/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ui-accelerators/ Just to clarify, there are indeed also some places in iOS where it’s maybe less ideal, but my point is that there is a place for undiscoverable features.