Comment 18 for bug 1759300

"pretty narrow set of hardware" is absolutely false. It is tuned for laptops that have clickpads which most of them these days, with only the exception of some Dell and HP "business" laptops. Everything else ships with clickpads that support 2 or more fingers (even including most Dell and HP laptops)

Regardless, you can go back to the old driver with the old dual behaviour:

  1. sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  2. Only login to "Ubuntu" (Xorg sessions). Not "Ubuntu on Wayland".
  3. Tweak your personal preferences with the 'synclient' tool.
  4. Save your personal preferences as a command to run on login in 'gnome-session-properties'.