Objective-C can feel easier to different types of developers for different reasons. For disciplined developers who always dot their I’s and cross their T’s, it

Objective-C can feel easier to different types of developers for different reasons. For disciplined developers who always dot their I’s and cross their T’s, it feels easier because they can write code with full “trust” from the compiler that the developer knows what they’re doing. For undisciplined developers, it can feel easier because the compiler isn’t calling them out on code smells and inattentiveness to nullability and types. I’d like to think I’m somewhere in the middle (as I suspect most devs are) and for me Swift feels easier in most respects, even with its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink nature compared to Objective-C’s more spartan approach.