The reason this is this way, is simple: the people that have made the decisions, and been listened to, leading up to it being here, are still the people that are going to make decisions coming out of here.
They are the same managers and directors and investors and stakeholders and analysts and inter-team communicators and c-level whatever the heck they are. These people do not make decisions for the people that work for them. They just don’t. Xcode is a massive, barely functioning development environment that has a tremendous amount of incredibly talented and bright people working on it, who are purposefully told not to make things better for the sake of the time being pushed on other more important things.
Those important things are usually fixing small errors in high value enterprise relationships. Ew.
Sometimes it’s high visibility features To can be marketed to bring in a new generation of people writing software for their platform to bilk more fees from.
Under no circumstance should you ever operate under the assumption that the Apple Inc. group of owners legitimately are worried about the lack of engineering reasonability apply to their product.
This will be the way things work in the technology sphere of influence forever, until such time that the finances that are brought in from these products of development are not the only driving metric towards success or failure of a company or its role in society.