I believe that is all part of the OS and not anything a launcher can do. Unless you disable it at a system level and then have a launcher that was setup to display a custom similar menu when you did the swipe gesture. But I still think it would only work on the home screen and not inside any apps.

I like the energy but really didn’t give good reason. Like what is the alternative? Android? When that has the (almost) same set of “reasons to boycott”. I know android is more open and free to customize, but your still stuck at the hip with Google Play services… unless you do something like Graphene OS. But then that focuses you to buy a Google Pixel. Overall it’s a sad world for mobile tech. And ultimately you got to bow down and take it from some tech overlords and honestly Apple is one of the that (as far as anyone can see) gone out of there way to end to end encrypt user data and not sale it to the highest bidder. Which is why some of the products like Siri is just garbage compared to the competition.