There's Expo if you don't want to setup your own stack. You certainly don't need it though, I have no issue with my React Native stack. Flutter has its share

There's Expo if you don't want to setup your own stack. You certainly don't need it though, I have no issue with my React Native stack. Flutter has its share of similar tooling issues, most of the time its native things like CocoaPods that affect both projects. RN has a huge amount of plugins, a lot that are very good quality. It's up to the dev to pick quality dependencies.