[cageface]

The actual work of mobile development is much easier now than it used to be. The tooling and APIs have evolved and matured and the hardware is so much faster now that you have to spend a lot less time worrying about performance.

The issue with mobile development is that web apps and PWAs can cover a lot of the same ground now and getting people to install new native apps is really hard.

[nyrikki]

The shear number of apps that provided no value to the users, but were merely a data grab has resulted in a serious impediment in my circles.

I think the industry is going to need to find a new source of income or focus on customer value beyond dark patterns on mobile web to change that.

I don't envy mobile developers trying to regain that trust.