The current controls are based on material design 2, but not on the newly released version 3. In order to keep this navigation library relevant, you might want to add support for this https://m3.material.io/

It is not possible to set the Ref on the Search bar. Meaning it isn't possible to use the methods mentioned here, https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/blob/main/native-stack/README.md#ref

Ability to create drawer sections with border separations and/or sections titles

Any solution to hide the default tab bar does not work for the material bottom tab.

How can I get the height of the material bottom tab? For the normal bottom tab, we can use useBottomTabBarHeight @react-navigation/bottom-tabs.

There could be a hook or a property in navigation state that would tell me if a transition is currently happening or not. This is trivial to figure out in a application with transitionEnd and transitionStart listeners but I'm developing a component library that is used by an application and in this library I might not be able to register these listeners soon enough to have reliable information about the transition's state

When a device is put into landscape, the option should be available to move the tab navigator to the side of the screen.

material-bottom-tabs is missing topBar in the tab navigation prop. This prop is on material-top-tabs and bottom-tabs but missing on material-bottom-tabs. <Tab.Navigator tabBar={(props)=> ()}> ... </Tab.Navigator> This feature is very useful and I'm in need of it in my current project.