I thought the exact same thing. It's such a damn shame, WebOS was way ahead of its time. Apps could be built using web technology and they ran great!

It took a few years, but last year Android got "native" web apps: https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

And I'm not mad at all. I'm glad that both iOS and Android are implementing one of WebOS' best feature. Using the Android P beta now and it seems to be most of the way there.

It's the worst part of Android P, and I'll patch AOSP to get rid of it for my devices.

If I open a task switcher, I want to see a lot of my open tasks. Not one, not three, not even four, but dozens.

How long am I supposed to be swiping if there's hundreds of open tasks?

And scrolling with the home button is even worse.

Let's hope Android Q quickly gets rid of this again.

I don't. Most users probably don't. This isn't going anywhere. It was easily one of the most praised features of WebOS by both users and tech reviewers. There's a reason both Android and iOS are going this way.

Then at least make it a config option, or support a pinch to zoom out gesture.

Having both a zoomed in view and a grid view is standard in every single gallery and camera app, adding it to the recents menu shouldn’t be that hard.

Came to rant about this, and the fact that the blog article itself seems to break wheel scrolling.

> How long am I supposed to be swiping if there's hundreds of open tasks?

It's a phone with a small as fuck screen, not a workstation with a big monitor. Why do you even have 'hundreds of open tasks' on a phone ?