That is probably the opposite of true. Go read the forums once in a while, the foundations are really well thought. I agree that function builders were probably added for the shiny SwiftUI (and was added too soon), as well as the property wrappers, but apart from that, the process of adding features in the language is actually quite transparent and well-defined.

Also Swift now has real cross-platform support. All of the libraries I create I test on macOS, Linux, Windows, android and WASM/WASI.

i tried building cross-platform libraries in swift for the past two years, with no success. I just did it in rust (ios / android / wasm) in a week, knowing nothing about the language.

the swift wasm project still uses a forked compiler IIRC…