Can't detect previous route. Can't pass state on navigation with delta - navigate(-1)

[Kris-Pelteshki]

All the suggestions I've seen across the internet point towards passing pieces of state on navigation and reading that state on the next page. This kind of works in some situations, but I've seen it cause confusion, so it's a bit weird that there isn't native support.

Secondly, navigate(-1) cannot accept an options argument, based on the Typescript definitions. So, you're forced to store external state just to keep track of what page you came from.
I might be wrong, but isn't this a pretty basic case for a navigation library? Why can't we know where we navigated from?