Honestly I think this is a symptom of the lack of really good GUI toolkits that let you define the UI in an easy-to-use and powerful language. There's Qt & QML, but that's about it, and to be honest QML is still pretty immature (try doing a custom control with text, or any kind of text editor in QML).

I really hope Rust or Go get great native GUI toolkits soon with nice declarative layout languages, but until that happens it is hard to get too angry at people using the wrong tool for the job because the right tools just aren't that great.