jackfromestero wrote:
I have zero vested interest in Apple compensating me. Just questioning the logic behind a design function that was relocated on the phone.
Note that, while you are free to submit feedback and suggestions at the link ckuan provided, Apple will not answer any questions you submit there. They read and log the feedback but they do not respond.
Though no one here can definitively answer "why" Apple does what it does, design changes are often just to do something visually new. The Liquid Glass interface redesign, for example, doesn't change how the phone works; it just makes it look different.