Keyboard and Mouse events on views not working

[Roshan-24]

Environment

react-native -v: 
18.0.0

npm ls react-native-macos:
RnMacOSBarebones@0.0.1 /Users/roshanbx/Projects/POC/RnMacOSBarebones
└── react-native-macos@0.79.1

node -v:
v22.17.1

npm -v:
10.9.2

yarn --version:
zsh: command not found: yarn

xcodebuild -version:
Xcode 26.0.1
Build version 17A400

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Run npx @react-native-community/cli init <projectName> --version 0.79.6
2. cd into project and run npx react-native-macos-init
3. Replace App.tsx with following code

import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, TextInput } from 'react-native';

function App() {
  const boxRef = useRef<View | null>(null);
  const [text, setText] = useState("Yes");

  useEffect(() => {
    boxRef.current?.focus();
  }, [])

  return (
    <View>
      <View ref={boxRef} focusable={true} style={{ width: 100, height: 100, backgroundColor: 'red' }} onMouseEnter={() => setText("hello")} onMouseLeave={() => setText("Yes")} onKeyDown={() => setText("keyDown")} />
      <Text>{text}</Text>
      <TextInput keyDownEvents={[{ key: 'u' }]} onKeyDown={() => setText("keyDowns")} />
    </View>
  );
}

export default App;

4. Run npx react-native run-macos

Expected Behavior

The text state should change when I hover my mouse into and out of the red 100x100 box view, and when i start typing in the textInput and during keyDown when the box is focused

Screen.Recording.2025-12-19.at.12.50.22.mov

Actual Behavior

The text state does not change, from which I infer that the mouse and keyboard events are not working.

The exact same code does provide the expected results on windows however (react-native@0.79.4 and react-native-windows@0.79.4)

Screen.Recording.2025-12-19.at.12.51.50.mov

Reproducible Demo

Additional context

No response