This comes off as a disingenuous response, by typing out a large block of text while neglecting to address any of the individual concerns written in the article. "it’s just data from our survey" is a cop out -- the presentation of data is just as important as the data itself, and the concerns of underlying bias via communication model presented by Zach all seem reasonable to myself.
It's fine to not be an expert in Data Analysis, and if it's true that the company no longer employs someone with those skills, there should be a greater willingness to make adjustments and corrections when problems are raised with publicized analysis.
I mostly agree, and usually feel like a grouchy old man for it. Been doing FE for a long while, jQuery into stuff like Meteor, then early Angular and Ember... There were a lot of frustrations but I found that they were more easily overcome, and past a certain point I've felt like we aren't getting any more technologically superior with reimagined frameworks, but rather just finding a new flavour of the month.
Conversely, React Native (and other similar solutions, even Electron which I love to hate) are AMAZING and I feel like it's such a breath of fresh air compared to pure native app development. They have their ups and their downs, and they're not always the best solution for a given problem, but they've brought so much opportunity for dev efficiencies within companies and allowed solutions to be built that would've otherwise been cost-ineffective in the past.