You've probably read it by now: Shopify is moving all of its mobile apps back to Swift and Kotlin, six years after going all-in on React Native. In their own words , "building the same feature in Swift and Kotlin no longer carries the cost it used to," because coding agents now do enough of the work in between. We never left, and I want to be precise about why. We bet on native in 2011 for one reason: iOS and Android would outlive every layer stacked on top of them. Every layer since has been t...