People hate this because it’s not the all-in-one all-nighter over-the-weekend hacker stereotype I think we all want to be; rather it’s a slow movement towards success over a much much longer period of time.
Honestly, the biggest value Mint and all the Intuit products have is the import from X-bank/investment account/etc. I'd pay for the ability to import into a spreadsheet from my money accounts.
The fundamental problem is cleanly persisting data.
There's all sorts of design paradigms we use to attempt to send state through the presentation layer to the persistence layer.
Ultimately there's no clean way to do it and because of that it's hard to have something like a micro frontend. The presentation layer is always aware of the data persistence layer to some degree.
Take a physical light switch. The switch will still work if the power is out; it goes up and down. The same doesn't have to be true from a purely digital standpoint. If the power is out, we can actually disable the switch(assuming this digital display switch is powered by a battery in this case).
So in the digital switch case, the switch accurately reflects the global state of power. In the analog switch case, the switch still functions regardless of the global state of power.
In the digital case, one must write code that actually checks the global power state to conditionally enable the on/off functionality of the digital switch. So that code, is not strictly presentation layer code, rather it's state-maintenance code or I don't know what you'd call it. Point is, you now have the presentation layer now tightly coupled to the something outside of the presentation layer; in this case, the global state of power("is the electricity working?").
And this is just a simple example of an on/off switch.
Micro frontends are a difficult problem. One solution might be to have all frontends be signal based. So if you send a signal a listener can optionally handle it or not or maybe nothing is listening. In the analog on/off switch case, that's exactly how it works. If the power is off, the switch still flips.
"Unfortunately, this is not something that we experience ourselves because we run React Native from master."
What does this mean? Does this mean they're always on the very latest RN version? If so, wouldn't this constantly break like many layers of dependencies?
Something has to give with the Mac ecosystem. The Mac App Store sucks, the Mac has continuously for the past years of been having security issues, serious security issues.
I believe Apple is at a crossroads, something needs to be done with the Mac.