I keep finding myself agreeing with the author whenever an encounter with the back button is mentioned. One of my favourite things about an old HTC phone I had

I keep finding myself agreeing with the author whenever an encounter with the back button is mentioned. One of my favourite things about an old HTC phone I had running a 2.x version of Android was that the back button worked very consistently everywhere. It made using the native apps feel like navigating around websites: just what you'd expect from Google. On literally every Android device I've tried to use since then it's been a complete horror show. This should have been the best thing about the Android UI and it's ended up being the worst. I think the thing that might be worse than back button behaviour is the horribly broken app permissions system.