I can't stand modifier-driven-development in SwiftUI; don't like how it reads, don't like how it works. They mix event handling with view properties with visual decoration, can end up nesting in horrible ways inside of various kinds of brackets, and just make for an unavoidable mess.

My question is: if Apple were to replace modifiers with something *better*, is there a viable alternative within the syntax Swift makes available today, or would the language need new features?