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Flutter doesn't use javascript.

Nor do you need any libraries for navigation.

An organization wants their app to run on both mobile platforms. That's not a limited use case.

I had the exact oposite experience.

Native apps are rarely worth it and cross-platform tools are mostly enough for more than 90% of use-cases.

I think native apps only make sense when custom platform specfic code makes up more than 50% of your app. How often is this the case?

True. Yet managers love them because these tools promise the ultimate pipe dream: uniform, interchangeable engineers.