The section about crossing the uncanny valley reminds me of this old rant about Microsoft Foundation Classes: https://www.relisoft.com/resource/libs.html https

The section about crossing the uncanny valley reminds me of this old rant about Microsoft Foundation Classes: https://www.relisoft.com/resource/libs.html https://www.relisoft.com/resource/libs.html The author likens MFC to a specialized Lego set for building a pirate ship, whereas the Win32 API is a general Lego set. I think the analogy is much stronger if one replaces MFC with web tech in a native wrapper, and Win32 with any OS native toolkit.