How does it do this as opposed to adding yet one more layer? Does it somehow get beneath all the cruft mentioned?
Seems like it will be solved 'soon'
The problem with this is that it is an enormous task and they have barely scratched the surface of it.
Flutter is hardly the first reimplement the world GUI programming environment that tries to match the existing first party environment in terms of look and feel. Java swing was pretty much the same idea 20 years ago, and probably had more investment and momentum behind it than Flutter does today. While I can think of a number of swing success stories, I don’t think java swing as a whole was successful in what it set out to do.
It's an enormous task that never ends, too. Flutter has to continually keep up with UI/UX changes that Apple makes. Without enough momentum there, the devs using their platform are going to have apps that appear/feel old, which tends to be a marketing negative for Apple users.
It has some downsides – they had to expose a lot of accessibility features on top of that using platform APIs – but it's quite nice when you are a developer, as you can Cmd-click on anything to learn how it is drawn, and use the same tools to build your own widgets if you need.
I'm not completely sure about it, i just now it from listening to some talks.
