Personally, I can't stand such anti-features, and smartphone OSes seem to be full of them. Which is another reason besides the giant privacy invasion why some weird people (like me) don't use them or are aware of every new feature.

Curious, this doesn't work for me. It does work for other characters, such as long-pressing 'n' to get variants such as 'ñ'.

I do use em dashes a lot though. I just use Shift-Option-hyphen.