Oh dear. I don't think Airbnb's '2018' post was 'last year' neither does a native developer shop using RN in a brownfield project render the whole ecosystem 'dead'. But then again Betteridge's law of headlines is very wonderful for posts like this.
All of the technical points the author (yes the OP) uses have been available in Flutter and even Xamarin which I don't find the case for RN convincing at all. They are all looking the same except for the language used. Which is why from there, it now depends on the developer language you are most familiar with. C# - Xamarin, JS/TS - RN, Neither? Use Flutter with Dart.
I don't even like React Native, but at least its better than some other alternatives depending on your circumstance (cross-platform, MVPs, greenfield projects, etc) but still no better than a native app if you know the iOS or Android ecosystem in depth.
