I shared your opinion until several months ago. As far as I was concerned it was a gimmick that made nothing any better and didn’t do anything I couldn’t achieve any other way.
And I’ll be honest, even when I decided to give it a more thorough try to see what the fuss was about, it didn’t change my opinion immediately either.
But once things like the task switching shortcut and especially the 3D Touch on the keyboard became second nature, I don’t think I could easily do without them any more.
The keyboard one is genius, moving the cursor and selecting text without having to move my thumb away from the keyboard to touch somewhere else on the screen is just much faster and far more accurate than the old way of doing things.
I do still think there’s a lot of room for improvement with 3D Touch, some of the things still seem a bit pointless to me and I never use them. But I’m sure they’ll keep refining it and making it further integrated into the whole experience.
I’m sure it’s not for everyone, there’s always going to be people who just won’t use it, which is fine, hell I was one of them. Nobody can dictate how another person uses their own devices. But when I have to use someone else’s phone who doesn’t have the shortcuts now it’s really obvious how much I’d actually miss them. Kind of like when you use someone else’s computer and their trackpad doesn’t have multi touch, bloody annoying
