diff --git a/.npmrc b/.npmrc
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@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
 # React Native / Expo expects a flat (npm/yarn-style) node_modules layout
-# where transitive deps are reachable from any package. pnpm's strict
-# isolation breaks that — Metro can't resolve @babel/runtime/helpers/*,
-# @expo/metro-runtime, react-native-* peers, etc. when they're only
-# installed for the package that declared them.
+# where ALL transitive deps are reachable from any package. pnpm's strict
+# isolation breaks that — Metro hits a fresh missing-module error for every
+# transitive dep (invariant, nullthrows, @babel/runtime/helpers/*, ...).
 #
-# These patterns hoist the common RN/Expo dependency families to the
-# workspace root node_modules so Metro and the Expo bundler can find
-# them via the standard Node resolution algorithm.
-public-hoist-pattern[]=*@babel/runtime*
-public-hoist-pattern[]=@expo/*
-public-hoist-pattern[]=expo
-public-hoist-pattern[]=expo-*
-public-hoist-pattern[]=*react-native*
-public-hoist-pattern[]=@react-native*
-public-hoist-pattern[]=*metro*
+# shamefully-hoist=true hoists everything to the workspace-root node_modules
+# (like npm/yarn) so all transitive deps are reachable via standard Node
+# resolution. This is the official Expo monorepo workaround and is the
+# only sustainable answer for Expo + RN + pnpm. Desktop (Electron+Vite)
+# bundles via Vite, so the flatter layout doesn't affect it.
+shamefully-hoist=true