[pwinnski]

Alternatively, "include every option so everyone is left slightly unhappy."

I can't imagine ever going back to a phone with a button. Every time I pick up my daughter's iPad, I try to use gestures on it before remembering that I have to press that button, which already seems like a relic from the past.

It took minutes to get used to swiping up instead of pressing a button. It now feels like the most natural thing in the world, and I wonder why they ever started with a button. (Not really, but that's how natural the swipe gestures feel)

[pjmlp]

Software buttons are great until the OS freezes, then the only hope is that at least hard reboot works.

[simonh]

Which is why the iPhone X uses hardware buttons to do a forced reset. What has that got to do with home buttons?