If may I ask is there any plans to deprecate other res[xm] files .. I mean isn’t that the whole point to go all kotlin with its full power to arrange code

many workflows for app development involve ingesting translations from other, sometimes external toolchains and vendors

using kotlin code for translated string constants comes with a lot of associated downsides

once apps start getting large, translations can account for megabytes of data in an app. Many times they're downloaded on the fly by one means or another, whether that's explicit server communication or apk resource splits

tossing all of that into the app's static string tables and letting the classloader sort it out is a recipe for a lot of, "this was never meant to do this" stress testing