Most large tech companies are just job programmes, i've seen so much effort, time, cost go into things that are truly unimportant.

React Native gives you (with asterisks) - one "source" for things to go wrong (as it sits on top of the native implementations of the UI + Native APIs). You are writing at that source level, and that filters down to the native builds. I am WELL aware to do certain things on each platform you need to get your hands dirty, but most apps are just serialising JSON from a database and displaying it.

AI writes very buggy, sloppy code.

They've decided - instead of containing that code to 1 surface, they would now have 2 surfaces they throw slop on top of.

I look forward to the 2027 version of this where they've gone back

And on top of that, they're losing the ability to ship hotfixes over the air and will always be at the mercy of apple & google to deliver their updates.