> You must understand that the iOS development community has its roots in decades of engineering community, coming from NeXT, Mac OS and UNIX traditions.

I'm sorry, but Fart Apps need not be the exclusive province of "very serious" developers.

> Or any other of the hundreds (thousands?) examples of junior engineers ignoring history and re-inventing failed architectures that would not have been so broken if they looked at what came before with anything other than disdain.

Maybe. Or perhaps the communication and people skills of the generation that came before them were somewhat lacking.