This was very jarring at first, but over time I've actually gotten used to the gestures and they feel more consistent than various makers of phones having the software buttons in different positions. It's almost like muscle memory at this point.
If you don't like gestures, however, you should be able to go to the system settings and enable the old style navigation. If they had removed it entirely, then I'd probably be more critical (a la Windows 11 vertical taskbar).
This was very jarring at first, but over time I've actually gotten used to the gestures and they feel more consistent than various makers of phones having the software buttons in different positions. It's almost like muscle memory at this point.
If you don't like gestures, however, you should be able to go to the system settings and enable the old style navigation. If they had removed it entirely, then I'd probably be more critical (a la Windows 11 vertical taskbar).