You have what I'm saying backwards. I'm
not talking about a
small dev team. My whole point is that when you have a large dev team, that you don't need that platform abstraction because you have the manpower to handle multiple platforms natively. Especially if you are a software company and not just a widget company that also has an app.
> It turns out being able to get additional employees that don't need extensive mobile experience and can just crank out features is a huge pressure release.
The idea that because you're using React Native you can throw developers with no mobile experience at problems seems naive to me.
I also don't believe feature velocity scales with the number of developers. This is the whole 9 women making a baby in a month thing. This especially true on a mobile app which is constrained by the interface and user expectations. You're not going to have hundreds of developers working on a far flung features away from everything else because the apps are small and tight even if complex. There are exceptions but most mobile apps are focused on a small critical path.
It seems to me that all these companies with hundreds of mobile developers aren't producing better results than those with dozens. In fact, it usually seems the opposite. There are exceptions but when was the last time a giant company made such extensive changes to their app that justified that number of developers?
A justified use of developers is native versions for each platform.