[mrkcsc]

Blog author here. As a native app developer, I would say that the trade off is similar to developing an app on native Android vs. native iOS.

You inevitably must solve problems on Android that iOS has not yet solved (or are trivially easy to do) and vice versa, but each framework also has its own strengths that come with it.

React Native is no different in this regard. We sometimes solve different problems that occasionally area easier to do on Native (although as mentioned by this post, this is the first time in years we've actually had to sit down and focus on performance).

That being said, some of the pros are that we save a tremendous amount of time through code sharing, web team contributions, etc.