90% of apps using UINavigationController or the SwiftUI equivalent will have the back button be a label with a left facing arrow in the top left. A swipe from the left will also trigger this action. Its never tripped me up.
But why is it always on the top left or right? Phones continue to get larger and since iOS doesn't have a universal back button, wouldn't it make sense it put navigation buttons on the bottom left and right?
it's not an Android phone. Please go back to Android if what you want is Android. I don't mean that in jest, but in all seriousness. You've gotten used to a certain way of doing things for over a decade, keep at it.
It makes no sense for you to change if you don't like the other way of doing things and it makes even less sense to discuss "why why why isn't the new system working like my old one".