I coded an emotional support settings view today
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It's an emotional support view because I'm a little depressed and doing something aesthetically pleasing helped.
Yes, a non-.grouped Form would be more idiomatic on the Mac if you're not shipping a System Settings-style setup, but it requires _so much gosh darn work_ to make it look okay in SwiftUI that I may as well just keep the columnar UI for the panel and reuse the code.
And of course, neither of these approaches produces a traditional Mac settings/preferences panel, so for there it has to be rewritten to use TabView.
You _could_ ship a NavigationSplitView there, but I find that System Settings is a terrible experience all around, one that justifies itself out of sheer density and navigation depth; if you don't have that, a settings panel is a much better way to go, IMO.
Unfortunately, this targets iOS 18, where NavigationSplitView is basically broken across a range of basic adaptations.
So I rewrote it as a NavigationStack for there. Still some breakage (note the back button), but usable.
It's sparse, and it used to be just a single .grouped Form with sections, but it looked ugly as heck. But to do it right I had to write its structural harness three times.
Once 'the right way'; on iOS 26, NavigationSplitView works correctly across idioms and adaptations, and so we can just use that.
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"I have a Netrunner PC" is now among the most semantically overload short sentences of the English language
And the work is now sand I am trying to hold.