No thanks. Just learn to Storyboards already. It is it that hard and Xcode can help anyone who maintains this app. If it all in code it takes a lot of the and effort to understand what is controlling the layout.
Storyboards are good for small, simple apps where you're the sole developer (or maybe a team of 1-3). Go bigger, drop storyboards.
If you internationalise your app, you can extract all the copy out of a storyboard into a strings file.