That's what I did as well, tried react-native-macos but that didn't work. I also have an Electron version using react-native-web, which works great.

Now, with Apple Catalyst, things got really interesting. Try it on your project and let me know how it goes, specially the performance. I haven't tried react-native-windows yet but that's on my radar. I don't think we have a high quality alternative for Linux.