There's also the question of the amount of footgun you give to developers. While iOS is more performant than Android, Google gives Android developers much more guidance in best practices and patterns that help developers avoid issues around architecture, injection, state and threading.
I've seen many iOS projects overwhelmed by tech debt while its Android counterpart was still OK-ish. I don't believe this is coincidence.
So how hard is it to apply React Native the correct way? Having a dedicated team of dozens of engineers including native experts for each platform is different than your average 4-8 people dev (web, API, iOS, Android) team. Let alone if you only have people experienced in web doing the work.
When I build Swift applications the fact they have sub 500ms loads is not an achievement, they're simply already doing that without me trying. But I have found the right way to build iOS apps myself over the years, very little help from Apple.
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