> This should not be relevant in any professional technical discussion. Last time I looked there was not an overflowing oversupply of cross platform UI frameworks.
That latter sentence kinda defeats the argument in your first sentence.
If there's a dearth of options, then there's room for a better API.
"If there's a dearth of options, then there's room for a better API."
A new UI framework is not something you can wish for Christmas. One can implement one (like Blender has done) but other than that, one is limited to the options which are available.
I don't think anyone claims there is no space for new UI libraries. It's not obvious one can simply implement a new one. This is not something someone does for fun over a weekend (at industrial scale) or just to try an epiphany of design over a few months. They are huge, laborious beasts. If one has resources to implement a huge UI framework, then generally, they probably have the resources to implement the UI natively on every platform they wish to deploy on.
"A better API" is kinda moot feature for a UI library since they are technically so demanding, all other factors are more critical.
That latter sentence kinda defeats the argument in your first sentence.
If there's a dearth of options, then there's room for a better API.