The host retaliated because we had the audacity to tell her that the place was unclean when we checked in. She claimed 2000$ of fabricated damage and as you Airbnb sided with the host initially.

It's only because I lost 3 hours of my time with support and took a thousands of screenshot from our Messages that I got them to drop that charge.

I also issued a Chargeback with my credit card for the dirty place.

But yeah, this is done for me as well. I had 20+ stays but I will never , absolutely never use them again. My time is worth something and this Airbnb destroyed our holiday and took way too much of my time to handle.