If you have to design for arbitrary resolutions and aspects, you are way more limited in what you can do with your design. On a touch device this is even more severe because buttons that are too narrow will be hard to reach etc.
Also, if you are not using standard controls and you have a designer make a couple of images for you, you will now have to split those up into parts to render your UI. It seems that you would argue that this is the only way to go but surely we can agree that it is more expensive for the developer?
Also, if you are not using standard controls and you have a designer make a couple of images for you, you will now have to split those up into parts to render your UI. It seems that you would argue that this is the only way to go but surely we can agree that it is more expensive for the developer?