Agree. In the hands of a seasoned dev not only does productivity improve but the quality of outputs.
If I’m working against a deadline I feel more comfortable spending time on research and design knowing I can spend less time on implementation. In the end, it took the same amount of time, though hopefully with an increase of reliability, observability, and extendibility. None of these things show up in the author’s faulty dataset and experiment.
I recently jumped ship from Apple to Android after being a diehard apple user for 10+ years. So far I am enjoying no longer being constrained by Apple's ecosystem and way of doing things. Worth noting Android and OS integrations are significantly less polished, but any technical user would be able to recreate the same features. I'm now using a S23Ultra + Tab S9 Ultra.