@mossfet because the same direction swipe will often cause a UI element aligned by the text reading direction to show up on the opposite side of the screen. It is hard to describe without an example so here I will add some screenshots showing what I mean. These are from the Wikipedia app, and both of these table of contents pop-outs appear when I swipe from right to left, which only makes sense for LTR languages like English.
@thufie ooooh i getchu
i did remember on hebrew wikipedia the little quick info box is flipped, but i suppose i was expecting that if the gestures weren't flipped then the UI elements wouldn't be either
that's rlly annoying yeah