iOS was never designed to be a general computing platform. It was designed to be minimalist mobile consumption only and light interaction. You can tell this in

iOS was never designed to be a general computing platform. It was designed to be minimalist mobile consumption only and light interaction. You can tell this in the original iOS which lacked multi-tasking completely. Only later was it shoe-horned in (along with undo, copy/paste, the concept of a cursor, etc) The result of what we have now has been an iterative journey, the product of a bunch of user requests who insist on trying to create the same experience on a mobile phone with limited and far different interaction modalities. At a certain point, you need to know when to stop and just open up your laptop rather than cursing something that was never originally designed for the task you’re trying to accomplish. Right tool for the right job!