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You won’t throw any of that away, you can structure your app around SwiftUI and drop in to UIKit for custom controls whenever you want.

This is a good idea for MapKit and web views at the moment, and probably the camera.

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It's a great solution when it works. MapKit and web views are good examples of it working well, but it can get buggy with anything more complicated, especially when mixing Views and UIViews in the same parent view. The worst part is that the behavior can change based on the OS version. You have to be proactive with testing your apps on the beta OS releases ASAP.

Also, and this might have been fixed already, but a couple years ago, there were problems getting updateUIView to run in response to ObservableObject updates.

The promise of UIViewRepresentable is a lot like SwiftUI itself. It's great when it works, but there's little you can do when it doesn't.

Or you can structure your app in UIKit and build custom views and nice animations in SwiftUI. SwiftUI is a nice abstraction but a lot of it is really unnecessarily force fed by Apple because it helps them get more amateur developers into the platform.

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