Not slamming React Native but the sensationalistic headline. Anyone with a bit of experience in software should know better than making this kind of silly proclamation about the future of your software stack.
On a side note, I'm not a big fan of people shoehorning stateless web development patterns into application environments that support stateful development. The solutions appropriate for development inside a web page are often not helpful inside an application binary.
Twice the "leader" of the "Totally Amazing Success" left the company to "be totally amazing" somewhere else. In both cases the team was made mostly of very young engineers, the level of amazingness was strongly overestimated. It was also declared very early, before the "novelty" of the "new thing" faded, and also before the downsides appeared while maintaining the product.
You often see this kind of stack rank of developer priorities:
1. What’s good for my career
2. What makes my boss look good
3. What is convenient for the development team
4. What is good for the company
...
99. What’s good for users
It's much less exciting, however, to say "React Native Is What's Next at Shopify".
Discord is an interesting case. They were using React Native for iOS and not Android. In their defense, this probably makes sense since substantial code sharing could be achieved between their desktop/web app and their iPhone app with this approach.
The vast majority of the app is implemented natively.
[1] https://instagram-engineering.com/react-native-at-instagram-...
Seems like if you try to proclaim the future you end up eating your words
Facebook has continued to use it, Microsoft has begun using it heavily, Twitter uses it on the web[0], Discord has been very happy with it -- and countless other examples.