Machine generated XML doesn’t play nice with version control for views that are even moderately complex. Merge conflicts become more of a nightmare to untangle as your app matures, plus it can make pull requests unintelligible.

This is part of why for apple platform dev, several years ago I abandoned XML-based XIB and storyboard UI design for any collaborative project. Writing it all out in code (even with just UIKit, no SwiftUI) is a lot more pain-free.

I’d like to do the same for Android projects, but Google is hellbent on the XML usage if you’re building with Android Framework… Jetpack Compose improves the situation some but I’ve not used it much yet.