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always seemed over-complicated

Technology-wise? Yes it is.

Development-wise? It actually makes dev process much simpler by making it grossly cross platform instead of having to care about little gotchas on each use case (which may or may not actually be popular. Not saying it's optimal, but as a developer myself, I say it makes a lot of sense.

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