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I tend to agree, but I still think it would be nice to offer an option if possible. I'm sure not everyone would prefer it on the right side.
Alternatively, maybe the menu icon could be placed on the left side?
I see about two reasons to prefer it that way, being left-handed or using a right-to-left language. But with those, the parent button might want to be on that side as well. It doesn't seem to be very consistent with Android apps. I have some with the menu on the left and some with the menu on the right. And I mean the icon and instance name serves a purpose as well. I click on that regularly to return back to my feed. (And technically we don't need to move the finger, seems the clickable area is the entire width... I can click on the void at the right side and it still opens the menu item.)
I had a look at the CSS. I thought I could fix it by adding a "text-align: right" somewhere for the breakpoint tablet and below... But I'm not an expert on bootstrap and there is submenus with additional headlines and indented items... Maybe this takes a closer look or someone who is faster at the CSS stuff than me.
This should be fixed now and this is exactly what I ended up doing.
Going as far as moving the menu to the left side of the screen is a much bigger lift, so I am not really going to prioritize it right now.