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However, I've tried it a few times and abandoned it each time, mostly because ready-made themes are limited. There's https://github.com/amwx/FluentAvalonia, but that looks quite barebones compared to, say, https://github.com/lepoco/wpfui#-screenshots. And on the macOS side, it looks even worse — even Xamarin Forms gives you better options there. (Please don't explain to me why that is at a technical level. It's immaterial to this criticism.)
Yeah, I think some things go a bit too far. I also think they tried too hard to solve certain things (poorly) in XAML that frankly shouldn't be declarative. There's a few things you can do to make WPF less painful. I recommend using https://github.com/michael-damatov/lambda-converters, for example, rather than writing whole-blown converter classes of your own.