I'm guessing parent was requesting an alternative that was demonstrably better rather than examples of how it's bad - and thus saying that GBoard is actually okay on this front, regardless of how actually usable it is.

For the record I'm with you, I WISH swiping was reliable but it's just so often so far off the mark. I remember it being better as well, but that was probably very early on in its use, when I was paying more attention to how I was swiping and going slower, as well.

Same here, it is infuriating. It also isn't very good for languages which contract words such as Danish. In Swype I could hit backspace once to place the cursor at the end of the last word and then swipe to add another word after it, but Gboard just annoyingly insists on "correcting my mistake" and inserts the space back again. I have to manually type in individual letters of all contracted words when writing in Danish.

I really miss Swype. I have tried other keyboards but I have yet to find one that doesn't suck.

Older Gboard (before it was called "Gboard" I think?) was quite excellent.

It started degrading badly for me around when it also started suggesting words that obviously came from the internet, e.g. stuff like "that" getting suggestions of "THAAAAAAAT", or current hyped brands I'd never heard of (much less typed out).