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If you don't know Swift, but do know Electron, it's easier to do it in 30 lines of Javascript.

People who don't like the developers work can always write and publish their own application, of course.

It's hard work writing free stuff for others, much easier to criticise stuff instead of getting your hands dirty.

It's hard work learning programming tools and optimizing, much easier to use a one-size-fits all framework that wastes the end-user's resources.

It's NOT intelectually challenging. Software engineers love to learn new things, but they do not love 10 different syntaxes for displaying stuff. Figure it out.

What's the incentive to spend a lot of time to optimize for something you're giving away for free?

I just asked ChatGPT to write a Swift program to renew MAC addresses with a menu bar icon and it had no problem with it. Just over 50 lines.

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