I haven't worked with the platform for 2 to 3 years. In my old job we had massive problems at the end hence we switched to native (we were an agency).

Problems we had:

* Deploying to devices was painfully slow compared to native stack.

* We all had Macs and the tooling (Visual Studio for Mac/MonoDevelop) was pretty bad compared to Android Studio.

* Wrapping 3rd party native libs was a pain, if not impossible. Especially in a stressful agency environment.

When we heard about the acquisition of Xamarin by Microsoft I was hopeful things would change to the better. But month later they rebranded MonoDevelop and focused on integrating Azure.

Did it get any better?