Swipe gesture to navigate back and forth between files doesn't always work

Often performing the swipe right gesture in order to show the previously opened file doesn't work immediately. When this happens, which it does countless times a day, I have to repeat it exactly 3 times before it works.

I submitted a bug report in May 2018, 3.5 years ago, and it is still marked as "Similar reports: None" and "Resolution: Open". I asked for updates a couple of times and never received a response. This makes me angry. My brain has been rewired so that when (if) this issue is finally solved I will probably continue swiping 3 times for another 2 years. At the same time, it makes me extremely sad. How can the engineers at Apple possibly leave me in the dark about if they could reproduce the issue, are working on it, or just find it unnecessary to fix it?

Swipe gesture to navigate back and forth between files doesn't always work
 
 
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