What we found after trying lots of different layout strategies on our iOS App was that Autolayout in code was the simplest to maintain, and still using Apple technology, contrary to ReactNative for example. Furthermore we were absolutely against reinventing a heavy layout engine knowing we had Autolayout at hand. The syntax was very harsh on the eyes though so we looked into ways to make it better, and Stevia (healthy syntactic sugar) was born! Thanks a lot for the kind words :)