Glad you made this happen! Sounds fun and I can't wait.

Yup, that's always the worst. I push back hard on things like that because it would destroy my productivity (by destroying my sanity 😩)

💯 I feel like Apple prioritizes the trackpad feel. We don't want the scroll inertia to be clamped when using a mouse scroll wheel though.

FWIW for anyone looking for a fix: I have found a happy medium with BetterMouse; but, it's not exactly bug-free and took forever to dial in settings I like.

Not having to hoist my styles up into the component when they need to be conditional. The variants support also made easy work out of building out mobile-friendly-clones of my company's standard component library.

Standard StyleSheet. I strongly considered Nativewind, but I’m not competent with Tailwind. I desperately needed better theme support.

#3 is such a hard pill to swallow. I have B2B ecommerce users who will literally copy/paste product names verbatim into our search field from wherever on their phone rather than use our Lists feature to quickly re-order the things they buy every week. We make improvements, but some will never use it

Good advice in there, but I can’t agree with forcing FlatList to the root of the screen in all cases - just most cases. Sometimes you need a static search bar on top. 99% of horizontal cases wouldn’t make sense either.

Your point that FlatList can be styled to avoid a “wrapper” is spot-on, though.

Should have mentioned that it's within Zen

Being able to iterate using TDD isn't a deprecated skill in this age of generative AI-assisted development. It's fundamental to producing maintainable code. I have a large share of the agent-produced lines of code directly from chat too - but it's important to use the right tool.