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- Seven years after its 2019 announcement, SwiftUI remains in a perpetual beta state with unresolved layout and performance issues.
- Senior engineers face growing frustration due to SwiftUI's unpredictable data flow, lack of backward compatibility, and reliance on workarounds.
- Apple's own SwiftUI tutorial demo is broken, and a head-to-head comparison shows UIKit outperforms SwiftUI in performance.
- SwiftUI's layout system is fragile, often requiring GeometryReader and manual coordinate calculations, undermining its declarative promise.