Rationale: The only case where the unsupported dialog really matters is React Naive. That's the case where the frontend and backend versions are most likely to mismatch. In React Native, the backend is likely to send the bridge protocol version before sending operations– since the agent does this proactively during initialization.
I've tested the React Native starter app– after forcefully downgrading the backend version to 4.19.1 (see #23307 (comment)) and verified that this change "fixes" things. Not only does DevTools no longer throw an error that causes the UI to be hidden– it works (meaning that the Components tree can be inspected and interacted with).
Add an explicit Bridge protocol version to the frontend and backend components as well as a check during initialization to ensure that both are compatible. If not, the frontend will display either upgrade or downgrade instructions.
Note that only the `react-devtools-core` (React Native) and `react-devtools-inline` (Code Sandbox) packages implement this check. Browser extensions inject their own backend and so the check is unnecessary. (Arguably the `react-devtools-inline` check is also unlikely to be necessary _but_ has been added as an extra guard for use cases such as Replay.io.)
Brian Vaughn