> Apple has a history of creating and then abandoning developer tools (remember WebObjects?)

A bit harsh - WO was released in 1996, stopped being updated externally in 2009 (13 years!) and only officially discontinued in 2016 (20 years!)

There's entire industries which haven't lived as long.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

Not to be confused with Python pickle files, commonly pkl.

Did they even know that?