I also detest that screen based reader with all my heart, but as a point of observation if you have your phone in a car holder it masks access to the physical fingerprint reader, making a situation where your phone locks while on the road some nonsense to unlock it. I'm aware of the plethora of "keep phone unlocked" settings, but my life experience has been that Google's gonna Google about when it wants "extra sekurity!1" even with all the "smart unlock" toggles on

I'm not saying that's a good reason to make the other 99.9% of my life terrible pushing on the glass like I'm trying to suffocate it, but I did notice the one tiny UX improvement with the front reader