shocked !
not really but I might as well feign it 
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That may be because you are accustomed to the old UI framework.
But once you cross the learning curve with FireMonkey it is really smooth.
I agree with you here. But if you do not want to pay then use the community edition. It is free as long as you do not cross half a million dollars a year in revenue by selling software created using it.
Well… too far from the reality. It’s a mere U$5000.00, not US$500,000.00,
and 5K the revenue of your company, it may include products not using Delphi.
Also it’s a capped version missing features, specially database features.
And that free version needs register to be unlocked… yearly.
If Python I would prefere Pycharme IDE for Python programming (also as com,munity edition for 0,- Bucks) and search for a UI which comes with a drag and drop editor.
QT would not be “my friend” in this case cause it is really expensive and not all of it is open source and some parts needing to give out all sourcecode. So I would think that I would try to work with wxglade and the glade Designer. This would be at least what is wanted.
But UI with Python is far away from being real usable. Java has more advantages in this case.