As someone with experience working at big tech companies, you’re missing the most likely reason:
Everyone who worked on it was reorged to higher priority teams, and nobody is left to maintain the apps
A lot of teams are only 3-6 developers, an engineering manager, a project manager, and a designer. Other roles like content design and QA are often shared across lots of teams. Developers with experience building native apps might be needed on other projects.
As someone with experience working at big tech companies, you’re missing the most likely reason:
A lot of teams are only 3-6 developers, an engineering manager, a project manager, and a designer. Other roles like content design and QA are often shared across lots of teams. Developers with experience building native apps might be needed on other projects.