They specifically say in the post how React Native was the correct decision and that it worked well for them.

Now it's a different situation as implementation has become incredibly cheap.

I'm inclined to agree on certain points; true native apps are, generally speaking, better when it comes to e.g. customer experience. It comes with risks and costs (but I think the cost vs benefit is exaggerated) - risk being the ability to find good native developers, which aren't as common as e.g. web developers who can switch to RN fairly easily.

But there's a factor few people (that decide on using RN) miss; it adds a layer of indirection, so you're no longer as "in touch" with the underlying platform. While possible, few RN developers would consider adding widgets or smart watch apps to their main app, but (I feel like) if you're a native iOS developer who is all-in on the Apple ecosystem, you're more likely to try and adopt these features (where applicable).

(disclaimer: RN is my current day job, used to do native iOS development and I frequently miss it)

You should read the article. You'd realize that you're not actually vindicated by its contents.

I don't see why you would, unless your argument for your whole career has been that LLMs make this easy.

FWIW, the native app specialists are in some sense the most invalidated here. Shopify decided they couldn't afford your skill set and didn't change their mind until you could be replaced with an LLM.

Really the whole concept of technology specialization is the thing in jeopardy. It no longer appears to work to make a career out of deeply learning something obscure. Agent-farming generalists appear to be the ones who own the future right now (if, heh, not the agents themselves).

If only LLMs had been invented at the beginning of your career, you would have been right all along!

Same here. Glad I stuck with native iOS development. I still haven’t switched to SwiftUI though (except for some small stuff). Still sticking with UIKit here.

what they should've done is written logic etc.. in rust and use mobile app just for native layers, so they can still share code.

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