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Which is incredibly frustrating if you need to switch between your browser and another app and the browser keeps getting killed and has to reload every time you come back

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This used to happen back when phones could only keep a few apps backgrounded at a time, but I haven't seen iOS kill the most recently used background app since the first couple years backgrounding was supported at all.

But then, apps in that environment were made for no swap. If you take away swap on a desktop system it could be another story.

I'd blame bloatware rather than the OS. As globular-toast's comment points out, using an SSD for swap could cause significant wear, i.e. shortening of the device's usable lifetime.

If applications made more efficient use of memory, the OS wouldn't need to terminate processes.

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