Five years of React Native at Shopify

Agreed. The web driven enshittification of everything continues. It doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't.

If what you're using makes it this way, maybe stop using it? Stop drinking the kool-aid, get over your sunk cost fallacy and start thinking about what your end user experience should be, and work backwards from there, making decisions that guarantee you hit it. Don't choose the language or tool first and leave yourself constrained to only what is possible in it.

The sunk cost fallacy in this case would've prevented the switch from native. And what's worse is they've thought about user experience, "just" set the bar for it too low