Also, the rule that you can't repeat a letter for a position with the horizontal word, or two immediate neighbours is just too...finnicky and arbitrary.
I ended up making my own keyboard for consistency across devices for https://wordglyph.xyz Another nice thing about custom keyboard is it doesn't give you word predictions like a lot of built in keyboards do.
Yeah, I am starting to appreciate that view a bit more now after also struggling with the native keyboard. I already started working on adding that to Word Pivot.
Also, writing a solver for these things is also surprisingly difficult, but fun!