As someone still in native, I got a similar vibe when switching from UIKit to SwiftUI. While this happened simultaneously with a lot of other changes (including using VIPER instead of MVC/MVVM), I'm also trying to use SwiftUI for one of my personal projects and find it disappointingly more difficult than the time I learned C++ by diving into someone else's badly written project.
Conversely, another side project is a JS game done in an old-school OO pattern and vanilla (no libraries no frameworks), and it's easy.
I want to like automagical solutions that the new frameworks keep touting, but everywhere I'm just seeing things that make it harder to work out what's going on. Half the stuff on the web should be a thin bit of pure HTML/CSS/image data with no JS at all, build server-side, and where the interactions are done. Like, the HN comment form I'm in right now is:
Conversely, another side project is a JS game done in an old-school OO pattern and vanilla (no libraries no frameworks), and it's easy.
I want to like automagical solutions that the new frameworks keep touting, but everywhere I'm just seeing things that make it harder to work out what's going on. Half the stuff on the web should be a thin bit of pure HTML/CSS/image data with no JS at all, build server-side, and where the interactions are done. Like, the HN comment form I'm in right now is:
<form class="itemform" action="/xedit" method="post">…<input type="submit" value="update">
etc. — it still works even when I disable JS.