I agree with you.
The future is going to be different than one monolithic website and I think ultimately everyone just needs to relax for 6 months or a year and just get a feel for how all of this settles over time.
Part of the federated future is that we are going to lose content from time to time. Maybe someday someone solves that but this is what a link aggregation ecosystem with no central leadership looks like, and that’s ok.
I use swipe up but I only remember that one out of 10 times. The other nine I used the back gesture and then curse out loud.