I wouldn't say the entire experience is insane, but a lot of things feel unnecessarily difficult (hello crash symbolication, auto-layout debugging, etc...) comp

I wouldn't say the entire experience is insane, but a lot of things feel unnecessarily difficult (hello crash symbolication, auto-layout debugging, etc...) compared to their web development counterparts. On the other hand, you do get greater performance and stability (but not perfect stability, after all it wouldn't be an iOS release if Apple didn't break something and completely ignore radars).