I’m failing to see where there’s some kind of downside here. What you describe doesn’t really sound like a bad experience.
The downgrade to touch is fine for basically everyone. People clutching pearls are simply mostly uninformed or specifically worried about deep edge cases from some stupid mountain of stupid superiority.
It's a fine experience. It's not what Apple is doing though. Apple is doing the half way experience that will leave all unhappy.
You cant figure out how those kinds of requirements might influence or curtail development in the non touch parts of the system?
We saw the same thing happen with mobile first on websites.