I can see it in both code and interface builder. Doing it in code on iOS is like using CSS where the only selector is `#id` and there are no child selectors. Would you write CSS if you had to do this?

    #username-label { text-align:right }
    #first-name-label { text-align:right }
    ...
    #last-name-label { text-align:right }
    #address-label { text-align:right }

With CSS, you get nice things like:

    #user-form label { text-align: right }

iOS code looks more like the first example but it goes on for hundreds of lines. You can create something like classes by creating real classes, but then you end up with inheritance hell.

I find IB's WYSIWYG to be a lesser evil.