🤣 just take the knee to the overlord, download Google Keyboard and disable network permission. Not ideal for our FOSS mindset but You'll have a much nicer time, iv tried every keyboard and nothing compares IMO.
Other UI annoyances I feel your pain 🥸 unfortunately AOSP is not iOS. You get used to it though.
I use both and as nice as iOS is, I use GrapheneOS more.