[duncanwilcox]

To which the counterpoint is "awesome UX". You'll never get that with web tech.

Sandofsky works at Twitter BTW.

You are probably right about most of the problems, though how much of a problem they really are is related to where you place yourself on a purist-pragmatic continuum.

Sandofsky explicitly mentions development: "Today, for high level work, I am as productive using Objective-C as JavaScript." That's my experience as well.