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> e.g. the situation with Camera/Camera2/CameraX was quite bad.

Yeah, I think overall it all converged a bit. Well Kotlin and Compose are big changes, but I can't really blame a change like that after more than a decade.

> But it's the same for all tech.

Yeah, I think we mostly agree. My opinion is just that I can switch between many languages and platforms, and native is always better integrated than anything cross-platform. Which makes for better apps and nicer development (I am happier learning Swift than debugging JS on the latest weird iOS-JS-framework with no community to help me).

IMO, if you write a simple app, then everything is simple. If you write a complex app, then native is better. As soon as it gets complex, nobody from the webtech community will know the details of the platform in question (unless they also do native dev on this platform). The native community for a specific platform is always bigger than the web community for it, in my experience.