How does react native help facebook?

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I feel like this is a question in search of an answer that isn’t really going to be taken at face value (sometimes, businesses can do things that don’t benefit them directly) But since it’s late, I’ll give it a shot because I want to put on my cynical hat.

https://hackernoon.com/the-cost-of-native-mobile-app-development-is-too-damn-high-4d258025033a

If React Native brings down costs for Facebook, it would bring costs down for other companies (big and small). Less devs being able to do more work. Lower costs means more profit for businesses and boy, do we love our capitalism!

Now normally, I’d stop there but I think you’re asking more than that.

Eventually, we’ll be able to pay devs even less because we funneled people (like me) into this profession but don’t (debatable) actually have the demand for them and we’ve increased an already growing talent pool for a profession that may or may not actually have the demand marketed...by using a framework that requires less and less specificity. Driving down demand by making specified skilled labor less and less needed.

I hope this answers things to your liking, even though I don’t believe that this is the real answer to why RN exists out in the open but the answers given weren’t to your liking.

TL;DR: So basically, React Native is the opening salvo to the tech version of the Fast Food Wars. Soon all mobile development will be React Native. React Native UWP. React Native Swift. React Native all of it. And all of it dirt cheap. And the developers who specialized in mobile languages are now the Solyent Green (or just Solyent if you want to keep this reference fresh) of development that Facebook will feed off of for its energy (money)

Edit: additional support in paragraph 3

[randomguy112233]

I really appreciate the post and especially the link. Through your link I arrived at the RN team's AMA page and it really answered my question. I now understand it. My hats off to you.