fix(iOS): RoomItem Swipe not working after scroll

[OtavioStasiak]

Proposed changes

Removes removeClippedSubviews={isIOS} from the RoomsListView FlatList, which broke swipe actions on RoomItem after the list was scrolled (iOS only).

Under the New Architecture, RNGH refuses to attach a gesture recognizer to a view whose superview is nil, retrying for 2.5s before silently giving up. With removeClippedSubviews enabled, Fabric mounts clipped cells into a bookkeeping array instead of the view hierarchy, so the GestureDetector's view in RoomItem/Touchable had no superview when RNGH tried to attach, the pan gesture was permanently dead on every row. Tap and long press kept working because they come from the inner RectButton, which sits deeper in the subtree and attaches normally.

The prop is redundant here: getItemLayout + windowSize={9} already unmount off-window cells, and React Native disables removeClippedSubviews entirely when Fabric view culling is on.

###What we lose by removing it:
The clipping leeway is 44pt (kClippingLeeway in RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm), so only roughly viewport ± 44pt remained attached—about 13 rows with BASE_ROW_HEIGHT = 75, compared to as many as ~95 rows already bounded by windowSize={9}.
Since getItemLayout and windowSize={9} already bound the number of mounted rows, and manual testing on large room lists showed no regression in scroll performance, removing removeClippedSubviews restores reliable swipe behavior while giving up only an unmeasured and likely negligible optimization.

Issue(s)

https://rocketchat.atlassian.net/browse/NATIVE-1154

How to test or reproduce

• Open the app with many rooms;
• Scroll down;
• Try to Swipe Left and right the RoomItem to open room actions;

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes

• Improved room list rendering consistency by adjusting how off-screen items are handled.
• Enhanced list scrolling and item visibility behavior across supported devices.

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Walkthrough

The rooms list FlatList no longer sets removeClippedSubviews for iOS. Other list configuration and surrounding RoomsListView behavior remain unchanged.

Changes

Rooms list behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FlatList configuration app/views/RoomsListView/index.tsx	Removes the iOS-specific removeClippedSubviews={isIOS} prop from the rooms list.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.ReactNative#7404: Both changes modify RoomsListView rendering behavior.

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