Prediction: This has no affect on rents, unlike what is commonly claimed.
Why?
People will spend twenty minutes reacting emotionally to this, never pay much attention to empirical changes in response, and never realize it was just fomo on their part.
It was incredibly obvious from your first post that the person lambasting others for "reacting emotionally" was likely a host who might feel just a bit threatened by this news and buries their head in the sand when one of their sources of income pisses off others. "I'd rather keep getting mine, consequences to others be damned, fuck you very much."
>Enjoy your cope, peasant.
See? Just like that.
Sarcasm aside, I'm pretty sure that, "YoU'rE jUsT jEaLoUs," and not providing any other kind of counterargument for those opposed to Airbnb is a great example of "reacting emotionally".