I understand that perfect detection isn't possible, but I'm not sure that I like that the fix is to increase the amount of human interaction required during an actual emergency.

Thank goodness, every time my baby gets a hold of my phone this ends up happening 🤪

Just reloaded a phone with Lineage, and it lows you to disable this nonsense.

I get the idea behind emergency call feature not being behind the lock screen, but pretty much everyone has their own phone these days (or two). I'm not likely to need to grab someone else's phone to call 911