Yup... I liked the old one much better.

My guess, over time, they will fix the issues, but that's the typical hickups of a framework that is still too immature.

It took Swift (the language) about 6-7 years to mature up. I think the language became 'mature' only around version 5.5. Whoever used it earlier, got to hit all kinds of weird issues and instabilities.

SwiftUI, will have a similar arch. My opinion is that it is about 2-3 years to be mature enough, to replace UIKit altogether.