@NathanWalker I tend to think this line stopped working because we made iOS native view reference disposable since 8.3 and it might even be useless now since there is a _removeView call that is done earlier.

See here: #9879
Perhaps this line was ignored so far because of that missing feature. If we want to keep it just to be sure, it may need an additional null check.
Like:

(<UIView>cell.view?.nativeViewProtected)?.removeFromSuperview?.();