I wish they would just open source Cocoa (AppKit) if they're going to just abandon it. There were some really good ideas in there, and I think it could possibly

I wish they would just open source Cocoa (AppKit) if they're going to just abandon it. There were some really good ideas in there, and I think it could possibly develop an active community to continue experimenting with them. IMO the problem this time around isn't the pivot, but the absolute half-heartedness of the pivot: two half-finished solutions: Swift UI and Catalyst, neither of which works very well yet, and this after about 5 years of pitiful development on Cocoa proper while simultaneously asking people to kind of switch to Swift. So it really feels like 3 half pivots in those 5 years, all to end up with something less polished than Cocoa in its heyday. I really respect anyone who put up with working on Cocoa apps the last 5 years. The documentation has been sparse to non-existent on new features (often times for a year or longer your best bet was to wade through a WWDC video to get any information at all), coupled with a really miserable Mac App Store experience that was forced on you. It's really sad that when you would find some bug in Cocoa, unlike in the past, you could basically determine that this was it, as everything feels end of the line and thus not likely to be fixed.