I agree that Xcode usability is absolutely horrible. It's also unbelievably slow and it's crashing so much it would never survive an App Store review.
But what really turned me away from making native apps for Apple platforms is the combination of bugs and lack of documentation.
SwiftUI was just not fit for purpose when I last used it a year ago. But even more mature libraries are often barely documented. It's hard to know what's obsolete.
The advantages of native apps for my work are small to begin with (from a user point for view). It's mostly about more reliable local storage.
If productivity is so much lower than making web apps it's impossible to justify the cost and the extra risk putting myself at the mercy of some oligopolist overlord.
But what really turned me away from making native apps for Apple platforms is the combination of bugs and lack of documentation.
SwiftUI was just not fit for purpose when I last used it a year ago. But even more mature libraries are often barely documented. It's hard to know what's obsolete.
The advantages of native apps for my work are small to begin with (from a user point for view). It's mostly about more reliable local storage.
If productivity is so much lower than making web apps it's impossible to justify the cost and the extra risk putting myself at the mercy of some oligopolist overlord.