Blindly shooting it down probably isn't the right approach, but neither is treating it at as a sort of silver bullet. There are plenty of situations where RN is

Blindly shooting it down probably isn't the right approach, but neither is treating it at as a sort of silver bullet. There are plenty of situations where RN isn't the best solution or just isn't a good fit. In this particular case, a company the size of Uber isn't going to reap the benefits of RN the same way a smaller one would, and RN's downsides will be magnified. Further, to fix the issues it has with RN it'll need its engineers to do native work anyway, making the extra abstraction layer something of a distraction that could've been avoided.