Thoughts on React Native?

I feel like native is just faster and easier. I used it for a while and then found native to be much more powerful and easy.

Depends on your prior experience. If you already understand react, your experience with RN will be great. If not, you might experience a bit of the learning curve.

For people who have developed in their native platform beforehand, they'll get used to their workflow and it'll take a while for them to get used to React's mindsets. For JS-haters (You know who you are), just develop in your native platform and don't complain too much for fucks sake.

Personally, I'd recommend you to just try it. As someone who got used to both mindsets, it boils down to the requirements.

For the startup-esque environment where iteration speed is important, React Native can be faster to develop in, and it should felt the exact same as native to the user, if done right. It depends on your team, though. If they're fluent in their native platform, let them use it.

For resource-critical applications, or ones that rely heavily on native APIs, developing directly in native could be much more effective.