Was that some hack I missed?

On the N9, a side swipe in an app took you to the home layer and you never quite new which of the three panes you'd come back to. I much prefer the way Sailfish does that in that it always goes back to the multi-tasking pane.

Side swiping the home layer on the N9 just cycled through the three panes in the home layer. I'd love to see the same three pane layout, including a better Events View, for Sailfish but without the cycle round and with it always coming back to the multi-tasking view as it does now.

At some point the Events View was accessible as a side swipe also instead of ambience which would have gone some way to making it more N9-like. See https://www.sailfishos.org/core-events-article.html