The dismissal of Cocoapods was due to some limitations, but it was mainly part of a migration from Cocoapods to Swift Package Manager.
Hence, the iOS Client SDK library is distributed on Cocoapods up to 4.2.1 and on SPM since 4.3.0 and we have no plan to extend the use of Cocoapods.
For this reason, you should switch to SPM for your project as well. The topic is explained in this forum post.
BTW, note that further improvements after version 4.3.2 will be transferred to the new Swift Client SDK 5.0 (currently in beta).