- The verbosity is easily addressed by using an IDE which providing smart folding, highlighting, etc... - Editing XML is actually a lot easier than JSON. Thank

- The verbosity is easily addressed by using an IDE which providing smart folding, highlighting, etc... - Editing XML is actually a lot easier than JSON. Thanks to XML schemas, completion works really well in XML and very poorly (if at all) in JSON. - Also, XML allows comments, which JSON doesn't. - You don't need `findViewById()` in 2019 and haven't in a while, really: there are plenty of alternatives available (synthetic accessors, Kotlin, ButterKnife, etc...).