I read the comment as "I have limited time and must be wise about what I spend it on. Apple is forcing me to spend time on something I don't want to as other things are more important".
Apple is controlling his product roadmap.
Whether people use it or not is not the point. It's the it's the opportunity cost of having built something else that would have been MORE impactful to customers.
Took me about 2 months, since I do it on weekends, and had to move the deployment of the back-end microservices to a ci/cd docker instance since .so files of openssl can't be compiled in mac and used in linux ( i use Aws lambdas). And of course, I have a MAC because HOW else I would BUILd and Archive my ApPLE XCOdE IOS app haahah? In my prev company we had a Mac machine plugged with SSh to Jenkins!!! GOd! A company that has 700milion visitors A MONtH is forced to do this!
You see, the problem is they force my choices All the time, and by forcing it I have to make bad decisions.
Apple is controlling his product roadmap.
Whether people use it or not is not the point. It's the it's the opportunity cost of having built something else that would have been MORE impactful to customers.