>unlike the regular use of Back, you can’t Forward to undo the Back in that situation....
If you've enabled Shake To Undo in Settings>Accessibility>Touch, then you can undo/reopen the closed tab.
If you've enabled Shake To Undo in Settings>Accessibility>Touch, then you can undo/reopen the closed tab.
Another thing that annoys me is when you open a new tab via Look Up > Search Web (which in a sense is quite similar to opening a link in a new tab), then that new tab cannot be closed by Back.
I wish Apple would spend a year or two in streamlining all that stuff.