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Are they doing web requests upon opening every settings page or what?

At least some of them are actually web pages:

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/inspecting-web-views-in-ma...



Hmm, and using React even! No wonder it’s slow and bloated.


You gotta wonder if this has been a reaction to a shrinking Cocoa/ObjC and SwiftUI talent pool


Could be that nowadays a lot of UI code will probably converge on web-first stuff like React, since it has a larger talent pool, as you said, and is inherently cross platform. Microsoft's newer apps like Teams are also built in React.




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