The original Pixel system also has this problem. ~20% of times opening the Recent Apps drawer shows empty, grayed-out rectangles in the place where the recent apps should appear, and they are not even touchable elements.

https://piunikaweb.com/2024/01/15/recent-apps-button-not-wor...

How such a glaring bug could slip through the cracks of "the iPhone of Androids"? No idea, but it suggest very poor QA.

Worse still, that bug on an essential feature of the phone (which older Android phones even had a physical button to invoke it) has been around for more than a year. Literally nobody at Google has yet sat down and checked the Jira ticket to fix an "if ()" somewhere in the code causing the bug.