I agree with your sentiment. It’s not like it is a huge change to hold it down for a couple of seconds to swipe to a different face, but for someone in my profession as a pet stylist, it was obnoxious looking down to see that a pet grazing my arm or water from a bath had changed it. It’s better this way in my humble opinion. Less likely to accidentally go to a different face when many times I need to be able to look at something at a glance.