Why doesn't expo(reactnative) promote APK builds

When i finished a major part of my app and needed to build an apk for prod, i had to search online and through the docs for a couple hours and at the end it just gave me a bulky 98mb apk even though my app has less than 5mb of assets and only reacr-native-svg and expo-video as deps and even worse, there's no way to configure eas to split the apk by architecture to cut size, i tried building the apk on device using eas build --platform android --profile preview --local and it fails due to some graphql bullshit everytime, i just feel they are pushing apk culture behind and lifting up their aab structure