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The problem is not whether you CAN build a proper native UI in tool x or tool y. The problem is that designers as a group have lost the concept of what that even means as a goal. Everything has become so web-centric so that designers after a certain point in time simply don't have the depth of native experience to make it happen. If you ask them to specifically match something, they can, but they don't have that implicit goal.

Don't get me wrong, similar problems happened back in the day with a Window designer creating atrocities on MacOS, or vice versa. It's just that these days everyone is a web designer first and platform designer second, even including the people writing the platforms.

Just got done listening to the podcast version of this. It reminded me about how many venues like Quora are full of people asking why it is so hard to find an engineer to implement their amazing idea. This theme has been in place for decades in software. It fundamentally misapprehends how progress happens - the job of thinking of the new ideas is an almost trivial part of it, it's the implementation that makes things go. It's the old "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" quote. We've been in a rut for a few decades where we focus on talking about things rather than doing things, and we aren't going to get our mojo back until we flip that and start focusing on doing things.

Even in places where AI has potential, the potential is entirely in pointing out something that someone has to DO.

If you're stuck because you typed this and now your app is automatically crashing itself all the time, go to System Preferences, under Language & Text, Text, uncheck "Correct spelling automatically" _and_ "Use symbol and text substitution". Both need to be unchecked.