I went through this decision a few years back (end of 2020-ish) and decided to go with Swift because it seemed SwiftUI wasn't really far enough along yet, and s

I went through this decision a few years back (end of 2020-ish) and decided to go with Swift because it seemed SwiftUI wasn't really far enough along yet, and some experimentation with SwiftUI caused me to agree. I wanted to avoid Objective C, largely because I liked the safety of Swift (optionals, if let, guard let, etc) to make it less likely that I'd introduce crashes. The funny thing I found was that I ended up needing to know how to at least read Objective C code anyway, because like you say, the docs use a lot of it. StackOverflow had a lot of it too. So I had to get good at translating between the two. Unlike the web dev world I was used to, there are way fewer Swift/ObjC devs out there, and the answers are fewer and less up-to-date.