I think its cool if you have this high-level abstractions that help in productivity as long as you have a 'fallback mode' to a more powerful api. This is even

I think its cool if you have this high-level abstractions that help in productivity as long as you have a 'fallback mode' to a more powerful api. This is even true for script languages for instance. This is what make Javascript or Python more powerful than the language let them be. Being able to 'fallback' to C if things are not working the way they should. Having SwiftUI or React are ok, if you can call imperative UIKit api's or web DOM when you need it. Im very skeptic that this model will be feasible for the more "hardcore" cases of applications. So its important to have a powerful way to control things in details. In hindsight, the modularity and the power that the web UI api gives you today is something to admire. Its hard to have other examples where the bazar model ended up with better tools than the cathedral model. Especially if the cathedral model had time to do it later with the technological advantage only experience gives you.