Calculator no longer supports repeating operations?

Prior to iOS 18, you could with the calculator app do something like:

10000 x 1.09 =

it would multiply each intermediate step by 1.09 again whenever you pressed =.

With the new changes, you need to actually reenter x 1.09 each time.

While I appreciate the other updates, removing this functionality seems unnecessary. Did anyone else take advantage of this removed feature?