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Coming from web I gave serious shot to React Native for quite sometime but I learned the hard way that it can go only so far in mobile app development. There will come a point in React Native development where you have to go under the hood to the native side of the operating system to deliver that last mile experience to your users.

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That’s kind of the point though? It means most of your time is spent rapidly developing in cross platform React, and only some of it doing platform specific stuff, as opposed to 100% off the time. This is a feature.

Care to give some specific examples?

Navigation for example. If you use react-navigation stack and native-stack may look very similar but have tons of hidden implications.

If you are presenting a screen modally on iOS you cannot present a Modal component over it for example. This requires that you understand (or at least research) platform specific behavior.

Even so, I’d take RN any day of the week.

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