[bennyg]

A lot of that commenter's points are really diatribes without fully understanding RN, or the 3rd party environment around it.

The absolute biggest con with RN is performance. Redux and aggressive shouldComponentUpdates are your friends here. Airbnb's Lottie library (and FB's keyframes) can help with complex animations and the bad perf associated with those.

The dev tradeoffs are 100% worth it.

The end-product tradeoffs are 95% worth it.

We've had to do some things in-house to circumvent some RN bugs, but that time spent there pales by multiple orders of magnitude in comparison to the time saved by starting a cross-platform app from scratch with RN.