Jeremy Horwitz, VentureBeat:

Back in 2015, Apple introduced pressure-sensitive iPhone screens alongside 3D Touch as a potentially major hardware-software innovation, but barely supported the feature, leading to informed speculation that all of 2019’s iPhones would lose their pressure-sensing hardware. Today’s release of the fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 developer betas appears to put the final nail in 3D Touch’s coffin, tightening up the responsiveness of its replacement: Context Menus.

And:

Over the last few beta releases of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, Apple has been rolling out a replacement called Context Menus — a change it set the stage for last year by releasing the iPhone XR without 3D Touch hardware.

Great explanation of how all this works. Personally, I like the new approach. I find it more consistent across all my devices. I found 3D Touch to be too hidden, low discoverability.

I like the fact that touch has become just plain touch. I no longer have to guess how hard to press a button. Now the choice is between tap, and long press. And that works well for me.