Cross platform is the obvious one. I think react native is "good enough" in app quality and tooling. I agree with most of your points. Developing a iOS only app

Cross platform is the obvious one. I think react native is "good enough" in app quality and tooling. I agree with most of your points. Developing a iOS only app is smoother sailing. The 10-50% more effort it takes to make a good RN app can easily be offset by a) getting 2+ plattforms b) if you have >10-50% more experience with JS and factor that into dev time/quality. The downsides and cross platform are covered, here‘s some other benefits: - if you think swiftUI is better than AppKit you can use a mature framework in the same style and could have been doing so for years - live feedback: SwiftUI previews and fast recompiles are garbage compared to React Fast Refresh which instantly updates the running app, on device, even preserving UI state half the time - you can update the app outside of the app store, it may be against the rules or not but people do it all the time - there are more medium quality but ready to go UI components out there. I was pretty shocked by that the last time I did iOS dev. - Swift is a good language but Typescript is way more chill while still being a pretty good language - personal opinion: simple animations in react native are not exactly perfect but coding custom CoreAnimation is way harder (for me) - going from a random design that does not take iOS UI conventions or guidelines into account to an app that looks exactly the same is faster/easier. Is that good? Idk but it‘s something agencies need to do all the time.