I don't think this statement is correct. Yes, expo internally publishes its modules to its own local maven repo BUT when we use this plugin, we embed those expo modules in the AAR. If you unzip the AAR and then unzip classes.jar - you can see that the AAR actually contains those modules.

loadView force-unwraps the result of expoDelegate?.recreateRootView(...), which will crash if initialize() wasn't called or if Expo returns nil. Consider guarding and throwing/fatalError with a clear message (or returning an optional) to avoid a hard-to-debug runtime crash.

The patch script hardcodes Pods-ExpoApp-{{FRAMEWORK_NAME}} in the path. For consumers whose app target isn't named ExpoApp, the file won't be found and the patch won't run. Consider parameterizing the app target name (or locating ExpoModulesProvider.swift dynamically) so the plugin works in arbitrary projects.

createRunOncePlugin is passed process.env.npm_package_name / npm_package_version. Those env vars are not guaranteed to be set in all execution contexts, which can cause the plugin name/version to become undefined and break run-once semantics. Prefer a stable literal (package name) and a version sourced from package.json at build time.

bundleIdentifier default uses ${expoConfig.ios.bundleIdentifier}.brownfield, but expoConfig.ios.bundleIdentifier can be undefined. This would silently produce undefined.brownfield. Consider validating and throwing a clear error when the bundle identifier (or android package) is missing.

This file uses yargs, but apps/AppleApp/package.json doesn't declare it. In a workspace install this may not be available and the build script will fail at runtime. Add yargs as a (dev)dependency for AppleApp, or replace it with a minimal process.argv parser.

isExpoProject(projectRoot) calls findProjectRoot() again to locate package.json, ignoring the projectRoot parameter. This can mis-detect Expo when the CLI is invoked from a different working directory or when projectRoot is explicitly provided. Use the passed projectRoot consistently (and parse package.json once instead of re-reading it per dependency key).

renderTemplate builds a RegExp directly from the template key (e.g. {{FRAMEWORK_NAME}}). Curly braces are special in regex, so this can throw at runtime (invalid regex) and break prebuild. Prefer plain string replacement (e.g. split/join or replaceAll) or escape the key before constructing the RegExp. Also consider resolving the template directory in an ESM-safe way (avoid relying on __dirname in the lib/module build).

This method returns true whenever expoDelegate?.application(...) is non-nil, even if the delegate returns false. It should return the delegate's Bool result (or a sensible default) rather than checking for nil.

The app.json example is not valid Expo config JSON: the plugins array should be nested under the top-level "expo" key, and the snippet currently has an extra trailing comma/bracket. This will confuse users copy/pasting the example.

This list item is accidentally double-bulleted (- - ...), which breaks markdown formatting. Remove the extra - so it renders as a single bullet.