I don’t play on console, so no it was never really a thing. Maybe the input system is a little different between console and mobile, it’s harder to sneak a tap in with precise timing. The closest to this I remember is that old problem where the “leave” and “repeat” buttons in Explore existed in such a way that one replaced the other, but if you were spamming taps you could hit “leave” in the brief moment it existed.
Regardless, that this is a persistent problem is exactly why it’s frustrating to me. I can empathize with having muscle memory interrupted even though I don’t play on console, and I think “this was easier for the devs” isn’t a good reason for it to stay this way forever. Doing it to quickly fix an exploit is acceptable. Leaving it is not.