Not everybody thinks Objective-C is torture. Some people might even say that HTML/CSS/Javascript is more torturous. And I am sure that there are people who are

Not everybody thinks Objective-C is torture. Some people might even say that HTML/CSS/Javascript is more torturous. And I am sure that there are people who are more productive in Objective-C than you are in HTML/CSS/Javascript on the iOS platform. Especially when they are implmenting features that are impossible to implement without using Objective-C.