Also struggled with ejected app at first but this was mostly due to not knowing anything about native apps… Now with more knowledge it’s fine and I’m generally able to solve native problems, it’s still hard but it get easier.
One trick I use in my apps is this one
This has been immensely useful because only me has to deal with the native side. Other devs are able to keep working with the managed workflow and expo client.
I’m going to start my blog soon where many things will be related to dealing with Expo ejected apps, as it’s true there is a miss in content for people like us that don’t really know much native yet have to deal with it.