It also makes me wonder how compatible react apps will be, for example one build warning about a deprecated iOS feature I inherited actually causes a crash on iOS 12. We have over 400 warnings from the react code alone, how many of those are future land-mines? Quality development dictates your builds have few, if any, compiler warnings. Even if they are things you know will never be a problem you fix them or adjust your warnings so they don't potentially obscure other, more dangerous warnings.
That's a good rule for any professional development project, but when you are developing a shared class library for other developers to build professional products from, it's far more important. The React team's failure to clean warnings makes me question their actual ability and commitment.