Exactly you are trying to to smooth out the gaps between React Native and Expo. You have every right to help your company succeed but the way this is presented here is that you did it as a neutral party, you did not. You crossed that line as soon as you included the Expo SDK by default.
"Do you have the same concerns about the recommendation in the RN docs to use Airbnb's maps library?" No because that is not even an apt comparison. An apt comparison would be if AWS Engineers helped make 'react-create-app' and they bundled the AWS SDK as well merely to be 'helpful'. That would be an apt comparison not a recommendation on the official documentation to use a certain library.
If you don't push people towards the Expo SDK then remove it from the default 'react-native-create-app', I'm okay with it being in certain templates but a private entity should not be in a default. You clearly benefit from this decision, yet your pretending that it is only because it's in the community best interest.
The beauty of open source is that you're free to fork the repo to include your own tooling if you so wish. Those who share the same concern as you can then go ahead to use your fork.
Nobody is pushing anyone to use Expo's SDK. You are free to choose whether to use it or not. In the same way, you are free to use Facebook's React Native framework or not (bear in mind Facebook is a listed entity with its own corporate objectives as well).
"Do you have the same concerns about the recommendation in the RN docs to use Airbnb's maps library?" No because that is not even an apt comparison. An apt comparison would be if AWS Engineers helped make 'react-create-app' and they bundled the AWS SDK as well merely to be 'helpful'. That would be an apt comparison not a recommendation on the official documentation to use a certain library.
If you don't push people towards the Expo SDK then remove it from the default 'react-native-create-app', I'm okay with it being in certain templates but a private entity should not be in a default. You clearly benefit from this decision, yet your pretending that it is only because it's in the community best interest.