[duped]

All of Apple's documentation is terrible. All of their developer ecosystem is terrible. They do care about you writing software for their devices if you are not an Apple employee.

Time is better spent writing apps for the web, android, Linux, and Windows. You'll at least be productive and have access to resources and tools that work.

[realusername]

That also mirrors my experience, the whole dev ecosystem is very messy and I gave up on the platform