The problem they're trying to solve isn't "Writing apps in Swift is too hard". The problem is "Writing your apps twice is expensive and throttled by Apple's eco

The problem they're trying to solve isn't "Writing apps in Swift is too hard". The problem is "Writing your apps twice is expensive and throttled by Apple's ecosystem". Most app purveyors will target iOS first because iOS users tend to be more affluent and willing to spend money. Google obviously doesn't like that for their own competitive reasons, but the rest of the market is also loathe to give Apple so much power over the app market that they can charge monopolistic fees. And since Apple has no interest in making it easy on everyone to work with their competitors, dev tool makers are forced to use hacks like react-native to meet their needs.