Fedora and Gnome is only one desktop environment and one widget toolkit. For example, Qt-based apps didn't have touchpad gestures at all anywhere until my work on Wayland gestures landed this year.

It is true though that if one limits oneself to Wayland and only to Gtk-based applications that touchpad gestures mostly worked before. We now switched focus to adding touchpad gesture support to more applications, so there will be measurable progress even for this case too.