I tried for a year to learn XAML (mostly using Avalonia) and it just never clicked for me. Feels like it needs too much secret insider knowledge that you're onl

I tried for a year to learn XAML (mostly using Avalonia) and it just never clicked for me. Feels like it needs too much secret insider knowledge that you're only going to get with that decade of C#. To much is implicit and magical, and it was very, very hard to trace through what was happening when something behaves unexpectedly. I got to the point where I could build a basic app with it fine, and I might pick it up again if I find the right project, but it just never seemed like it was adding anything, just making simple things more convoluted to me. I also found the C# community to be pretty hostile and insular, not in an intentional way, just more of a "hey we really want to help but everyone is too dumb and lazy to learn these hundreds of 'basic' things", and there's no good places to learn outside of noisy discords, SEO Spam q&a sites, and weird and vaguely hostile chatrooms.