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Third party developers should conform their code to Apple's public API's, plain and simple. Hacking around in Apple's private APIs is just begging for a crash or an incompatibility when Apple changes something under the hood.

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For developers not actually writing code that does this but rely on the developers of tools like Cordova/Ionic.., are they expected to learn the language the apple code is written in in order to do that?

At some point the burden falls to the abstraction author for the mistake, and the abstraction user chalks one up in "well I couldn't have foreseen that happening"

I'd say the take-away message here is: yes, learn a little about the environment you are working with & my guess the take-away is rather going to be "Next time I'll void abstraction layer X".

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