Very true, I think that might be on purpose (it's an interesting topic https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ui-accelerators/).

Do agree that this one is too hard to discover, Apple doesn't really highlight it at all, while it's so incredibly useful.

Luckily there are all the engagement farmers with their ios tips and tricks, maybe that is the official Apple strategy haha, and to be fair it kinda works as people do find out that way.