In some ways, expectations for UI toolkits have dropped too, though. Practically no UI toolkits created in the past 5-10 years come with a row recycling tablevi

In some ways, expectations for UI toolkits have dropped too, though. Practically no UI toolkits created in the past 5-10 years come with a row recycling tableview/datagrid widget (table with column headers, sort by column, etc) for example, which used to be table stakes (which is why they’re present in Win32, MFC, AppKit, GTK, and Qt among others of the old guard). New toolkits that lacked a tableview would not have been taken seriously back then. This has been a major blocker for my adoption of newer toolkits. I understand that it’s a result of mobile UI trends dominating the space, but that’s not helpful when I’m looking to build useful desktop apps, for which these widgets are crucial. Relying on third party libraries to fill these gaps (if they even exist) isn’t appealing either, adding yet another dependency to the pile and making a major part of my app subject to likely eventual abandonment by the library’s dev.