– first, and most important, it returns 0 upon success, some other number if it did not. This means that the only way to dismiss the alert is by user interaction. I need to have the option of dismissing the alerts via code, hence me using the Alert.show, which returns a reference to the alert created vs. an error code.
– secondly, it removes the parent parameter, and swaps the icon and defaultButton parameter locations to be in a more programmer-friendly order

What is the benefit of using that type of alert vs using alert(‘My message’, ‘my title’);