Jason Grigsby on Nostr: In 1999, Jakob Nielson wrote that the back button was the second most frequently used ...

In 1999, Jakob Nielson wrote that the back button was the second most frequently used navigation feature after clicking on links.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-top-ten-web-design-mistakes-of-1999/

For those friends who work on browsers, is this still true? Is the back button still a heavily used feature by users?

For this question, I would consider swipe to go back to be the equivalent of clicking the button.