I went directly with Flutter so I don't have any experience with Xamarin. However I have read a lot of bad comments about it, they say it's buggy and frustrating.

Xamarin.Forms is buggy and frustrating, Xamarin.Native (i.e. just native bindings without a huge opinionated framework on top) is really nice. If you know native dev already its a huge productivity boost (with the occasional hiccup).

I don’t think Xamarin Native supports SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose? The thing about the new declarations UIs is they lend themselves really well to something like Xamarin Native. I wish Xamarin would support them.

No, those are new frameworks entirely vs the traditional SDKs. I'm not sure if there currently _is_ a way to generate bindings or not, or if they rely on compiler magic to do their things.

Their way to provide macOS support is to make use of Catalyst, hardly the way to sell having macOS support to anyone that knows the ecosystem, but apparently they act surprised when we point out this to them.

No wonder that MAUI isn't being used on the VS for Mac rewrite.

Ive been pretty disappointed being a fly on the wall of Github during the MAUI transition. I dont see a lot of "lessons learned" from Xamarin coming through in the effort and there are several issues similar to yours where they seem to be disconnected from the dev community on large issues.