> However, there are times where you're tapping on a familiar app whose flow you know intimately and you know exactly where Y is about to appear and you want to tap on it as fast as you can. In those cases, it is absolutely infuriating if the app simply ignores your input and forces you to tap again.
This is very true, but the app has to be explicitly designed around this e.g. by not injecting random UI elements that can affect the layout.
Unfortunately this seems to be regressing in modern app UX, and not just on mobile. For example, for a very long time, the taskbar in Windows was predictable in this sense because e.g. the Start button is always in the corner, followed by the apps that you've pinned always being in the same locations. And then Win11 comes and changes taskbar layout to be centered by default instead of left-adjusted - which means that, as new apps get launched and their icons added to taskbar, the existing icons shift around to keep the whole thing centered. Who thought this was a good idea? What metric are they using to measure how good their UX is?
This is very true, but the app has to be explicitly designed around this e.g. by not injecting random UI elements that can affect the layout.
Unfortunately this seems to be regressing in modern app UX, and not just on mobile. For example, for a very long time, the taskbar in Windows was predictable in this sense because e.g. the Start button is always in the corner, followed by the apps that you've pinned always being in the same locations. And then Win11 comes and changes taskbar layout to be centered by default instead of left-adjusted - which means that, as new apps get launched and their icons added to taskbar, the existing icons shift around to keep the whole thing centered. Who thought this was a good idea? What metric are they using to measure how good their UX is?