Instead of using expo-dev client, I continued to use expo go, and I downgraded firebase by uninstalling and reinstalling:

"firebase": "^9.22.0"

I then deleted node_modules, package-lock json, and reinstalled npm.

After that, I simply added the following line in my metro.config.js file:

const defaultConfig = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);

defaultConfig.resolver.sourceExts.push('cjs');

// This is the new line you should add in, after the previous lines
defaultConfig.resolver.unstable_enablePackageExports = false;

After that, I didn't seem to get the error "Component auth has not been registered yet". You may still be able to use a newer version of firebase, but for safety, I downgraded it to 9.22.0, but you can definitely try a newer version, and see if it works.