Honestly, if this reduces user-hostile UI changes for paid accounts, and I can get a chronological feed of just friend activity with original content, I'd pay it at this point.
(I know there is supposed to be a friends-only feed now, but it's not even close to being friends-only still.)
It's a big if, and I don't think it will be what I want, but I'm just putting it out there that I would pay if the experience is valuable enough.
You're the second person in this thread to try convincing me to switch.
I use the app switcher constantly. I'm using it now to jump between my Lemmy client and YouTube. It works. It's fast. The back navigation also interferes with productivity apps, many of which still use a drawer. I use those apps constantly as well.
Gesture navigation will never be a proper use case for me.
Gestures are not better for me and my situation. Please stop suggesting that I work against my better interests.
They are objectively slower and less precise, just to start with.
I mean, do I want to give money to a billionaire? Not exactly.
On the other hand, if we don't start supporting premium software services and open source projects, the enshitiffication trend will get worse.
(I know Facebook isn't open source, but I've seen enough open source projects abandoned or enshittified due to lack of support from users.)
I have to choose among my principles, and I'm strongly against user-hostile UI/UX paradigms, enshittification, and other downward quality trends in software/services.
I pay to support my Lemmy instance, for example.