"more of a legacy code or poor PM type thing" most of the time, with the caveat that making bad choices around how to use Qt can exaggerate problems. It's power

"more of a legacy code or poor PM type thing" most of the time, with the caveat that making bad choices around how to use Qt can exaggerate problems. It's powerful enough to give you enough opportunities to hurt yourself (as does C++), and given the age of many Qt codebases "this seemed the right choice a decade ago, but things have changed a lot" can easily happen.