>React Native vs Flutter
Couple of years ago I self studied Flutter and built a decent portfolio to show off on my website and Github. I thought Flutter would be the next big thing, completely blowing away React Native, Ionic and being used for web development instead of React/Angular/Vue too. Of course I wanted to be an early adopter in this. I thought novel technologies should be reserved for quality programmers who know the latest trends. I also thought mobile development adds a complexity (in tooling, testing etc) which shit programmers cannot handle. Luckily, I still could not land a Flutter job at that time and stayed in regular web development.

Fast forward to today:

Flutter (just like any mobile dev) jobs are exclusively given to Indians, most of them via gig websites like Upwork for three digits per whole project (that is 1-2 months of work).
No client cares about code quality or tests when it comes to mobile apps. They just want an app. In fact, they want the developers to be as far away from their business domain as possible, never having access to anything beyond the backend API. Full-stack development with a mobile frontend? Forget it.

I used to go to meetups like pic related 5 years ago. Everyone was so enthusiastic. Google personally sent their tech advocates to promote their shit. Nowadays, nobody gives a shit about Flutter (or React Native for that matter)