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What were the issues with Expo and why haven't you ejected to vanilla RN?

They ejected toward the end but that just makes development more difficult, particularly the deployment process.

Expo is nice but the whole DX is just painful. The iOS Simulator will crash often. You need to do a hard 'expo start' relaunch often. What looks great in iOS will often be broken on Android. Trying to get pixel perfect UI and the desired UX is painful. Expo is full of bugs and limitations. RN is old and unmaintained.

> RN is old and unmaintained

Can explain the last commit being 2 days ago and the steady progress they've made on all fronts in the last year?

Try build a production app and you'll very quickly find the multi-year bugs in core components that require you to either build elaborate workarounds or 3rd party packages.

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