Pain points

Resources

Keep forgetting to add new .js files to workbench.gresource.xml
Bundling/loading/using images/icons/... is a pain
Loading .ui files is a pain

GTKBuilder

Was never meant to write by hand

verbose
- way too much indent
- 90% more characters than what is needed
- translatable="yes" all over
need to escape various stuff
- new line in GtkLabel 
   instead of \n
- <Primary>Return instead of <Primary>Return
id is confusing, #id select does not work - only #name

menu/actions

hard to setup with variant and whatnot