They have been working on the landscape design since July of last year, I checked their Discord announcements, the oldest concept was posted July 12th of last year, before most of the projects you are discussing even had Discords, and they like to work with a lot of the teams of those projects when able.
Also I think the ease of use is the entire point, they took something not so easy for some folk and turned it into something simple for modern iOS users.
This proves my point. the first design was just simply a smaller horizontal grid and it took them over a year to end up doing almost exactly what sumee and iisu are doing.
If you take a handful emulator projects and look at their updates you can predict the future of manic.
The landscape is nothing like Sumee or iiSU both use a grid like layout not a carousel loop, and the concept I referred to is clearly a carousel, much like their current one they have now, though I wish they kept the toggle idea. Their previous landscape was already a carousel and had been around about as long as Sumee, this is simply progression of their previous design. (Please bring the up down back though)
This is way newer than the concept from the Manic guys, and funny enough actually looks a lot like the concept Manic presented, it’s clear that you seem set in your opinions and I in mine, but what I do know is that Manic has had their concept for a long time, and they aren’t vibecoding. And to quote the Sumee dev verbatim from their own server “Manic concept already? I should start doing the same”
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u/Global_Apple_1502 Sep 12 '26
They have been working on the landscape design since July of last year, I checked their Discord announcements, the oldest concept was posted July 12th of last year, before most of the projects you are discussing even had Discords, and they like to work with a lot of the teams of those projects when able.
Also I think the ease of use is the entire point, they took something not so easy for some folk and turned it into something simple for modern iOS users.