WPF is a complex beast. It works pretty differently from every other GUI framework out there¹ and has a steep learning curve. While you can program WPF and pret

WPF is a complex beast. It works pretty differently from every other GUI framework out there¹ and has a steep learning curve. While you can program WPF and pretend it's Windows Forms, all that gets you is not very idiomatic code and confusion why you would even put up with that when WinForms is so much easier (except maybe XAML for building the GUI). Now, there's the other extreme as well: people who pretend XAML to be a programming language and try to bash at everything with templates and styles, trying to never have to write a single line of C#. In my experience people scoffing at or hating WPF come from one of those two camps.