iOS: Say no to storyboards

I've tried using Storyboards and Xibs in the past, but I think they're too annoying in practice for many reasons (some mentioned in the article):

- Merge conflicts

- Can't effectively search & replace

- Slow to open

- Can't inherit xibs / create subclasses of xibs

- The properties that can be visually edited for a view are quite limited

... and in case a dev opts into auto-layout ...

- Autolayout is like an extra magic layer

So whenever I have the chance, I just implement my views in code, doing all positioning in layoutSubviews. It's not that much more work and it's easy to modify and reason about.

I've never been a huge iOS developer - I've written a few apps and got them into the app store but never as a career.

I've always considered Storyboards to be the equivalent of using Dreamweaver. You can get by with it on small projects, but a much better product can be produced if it was just written by hand.