Looking at Symbian C++ code after 11 years gives me PTSD. Many years working at Nokia trying to make other frameworks run on top of Symbian so that developers could have an easier life. I do not miss those times.
I still don't get how Android team managed to bork the experience, other than maybe discouraging everyone to try to write C++ instead of Java/Kotlin.
Most likely if it wasn't for game developers, the NDK wouldn't even exist.