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Is mobile dev a bit like frontend web dev, where people really struggle to separate UI from business logic?

Frontend web dev essentially had no concept of architecture, it was all code behind IME.

More or less, yes. Because you have more opportunity to maintain state locally on a mobile app (which isn't done as much in browsers), you will see more business logic. But it's largely very similar to web dev. Again though: depends on what you're building and how much you need a remote backend.

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No, though i’ll admit it can be easy to get sucked into, bit that’s true for any platform, there are plenty of strategies to avoid this, mvc with uikit and swiftui further improves.

Just setting up test targets can mitigate this kind of thinking

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