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