The part about recovery and the lack of a universal undo/back function and instead offloading it to the developer, resulting in an inconsistent mess really driv

The part about recovery and the lack of a universal undo/back function and instead offloading it to the developer, resulting in an inconsistent mess really drives the point home. What's most telling is how even Apple often does an astonishingly bad job at it - it really sets the precedent regarding diminished importance. As an exercise: Browse the App Store for a while and count the number of different ways it implements "go back one step".