Same experience. If you are using ionic and using any hardware sensors including camera, be ready for a rewrite down the line. Also plugins (even commonly used ones) are full of bugs. The toolchain for builds and cross compilation is amateurish at best. Ohh and finally if all the things do work, be ready for getting surprised on how sluggish the application is going to be.
Yes, less useful. For example, apparently theres no capacitor plugin to create a "foreground service" in android. A search on Ionic's page takes you to the Cordova plugin.
