great context. the whole narrative you present kind of begs the question of whether swift could actually be a good systems language. as a SwiftUI app dev user

great context. the whole narrative you present kind of begs the question of whether swift could actually be a good systems language. as a SwiftUI app dev user I feel like this (and the OP's post) lines up with my experience but I've never tried it for e.g. writing an API server or CLI tool.