Non-facebook users are in a less fortunate position though, because while the automated testing might keep their dependencies working, yours will break. So people tend to stick to certain release and avoid upgrading at all costs, trying to find a permutation of library and RN versions where everything is mostly working and rest can hacked around. All bug reports by react-native team have traditionally been treated with 'please upgrade to latest release' which makes things problematic, because while your specific issue might be solved, you'll have bunch of new ones caused by the new release and your dependencies not playing nice. Hopefully there will be some improvement with this in the future.