You're assuming that people want to program applications in "platform languages" like Objective-C or Swift or Java or Kotlin. That's generally not true. They wa

You're assuming that people want to program applications in "platform languages" like Objective-C or Swift or Java or Kotlin. That's generally not true. They want to use their language of choice. That's why C interfaces are the reasonable choice, you can interface with them conveniently from pretty much any language and if you want a more idiomatic "pointless layer of indirection", you can build it.