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I wonder why there is no effort towards reducing the dependencies, or at least vendoring the worst offenders.

It would be a huge quality-of-life improvement for React developers, not to mention the improved security and reliability.

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There are. A lot of components have been deprecated and are being moved out into community-maintained versions. Some major examples are: Camera library, Photo Library integrations, Date/Time picker, AsyncStorage, and more. This is a large scale effort from the dev team to decrease core size: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/23313

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