This bit is no longer entirely accurate:

> For highly proficient users, this gets even worse as their is no command key equivalents for cut, copy, or paste. […] Part of the unspoken reason desktop clipboard use is so high is the speed in which it can be used. Mobile has none of this.

I recently discovered [1] that iOS has several three-finger pinch/swipe gestures for copy, paste, cut, undo, and redo. Apparently these gestures were introduced in 2019/iOS 13 [2]. While they are certainly not the easiest gestures to reliably perform, they at least do not suffer from the issues of ambiguity described by the author.

[1]: accidentally, of course, because the discoverability of many features on mobile is quite poor

[2]: https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/12/gestures-undo-ios-iphone-ipad...