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Doing UI stuff is unintuitive and the way of Android apps are structured makes them messy and hard to read. I don't know how to describe it other than "muddy", doing things the right way according to google just feels wrong. It's also challenging to write android apps outside of Android Studio because there is a lot of boilerplate required. Debugging can be difficult as well.
I don't even hate Java, but I'd unironically use react over developing a native android app if I were forced to build an android app again.