Yes! I'm a little biased as someone who worked briefly on CocoaPods, but it was an indispensable tool for many years. This is evident by its massive popularity.

Like with NPM, many people ran into issues ultimately rooted in not understanding the tool. CocoaPods had the extra constraint that correctly setting up a Ruby environment was hard. If you used Ruby with a fixed ruby version, bundler with a Gemfile.lock and then CocoaPods it worked well.