[ederamen]

Apple has done an incredible job of gaslighting developers into believe they care about them and are making generous investment into APIs and tooling, while simultaneously doing everything in their power to lock those devs into the platform and and force them to spend their limited time/resources learning the Apple-exclusive tech stack.

The intolerable part for me is that after you've spent years investing in learning their (non-portable outside of Apple) languages and APIs, they can reject anything you build for mobile for any reason, and you ultimately have zero recourse.

In other areas of software you could take the skills you've learned to your next job/project - but as Apple is moving more towards declarative frameworks where you aren't supposed to think about what's going on under the hood (I.e. SwitfUI), the amount of actual deep, transferable software engineering skills you gain from working with these frameworks approaches zero.

The investment just doesn't feel worth it to me, when there are so many other things I could be learning to advance my career.