[ntaso]

How is writing an entirely new view layer for every platform more maintainable than a few if-else trees? React Native doesn't come with good support for both platforms out of the box. Many components are unstyled. You still need to match the platforms' native behavior. TabBar is shit on iOS, you better go with TabBarIOS, and suddenly, you have exactly the same mess like in Cordova-based apps.

The benefit of Ionic 2 is that there's hardly anything you have to do yourself to target the OS / device. It's all handled by Ionic.