Hi there – thanks for your honest feedback especially since you are not the only one who seems to feel this way.
Let me first start by saying that we are just getting started.
There is no intention for this to be a platform that prefers one operating system over another – if you haven’t seen what you are looking for, it’s not be design, just that it will take us time to get it in place.
In fact, many of our visible components do support material design and they should since we are building off of the work of the ReactNative community, which by design tries to support the native experiences of both Android and iOS.
One thing that we have observed is that despite the Android and iOS efforts, many developers today are opting for a single design language across both platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Slack are some examples of this). Developers in general don’t think it’s worth the time maintaining two separate design languages and we think that this is more likely than not where app design is headed. One interesting observation is that even the hardware at the top end is starting to look the same.
You’ll notice that our first advanced sample app has a design that is neither specifically Android or iOS.