react-native app crashes without log on Firebase auth logout when using 'onSnapshot' with 'where' query and 'in' operator

The title pretty much says it all. On the home screen, I subscribe to a list of categories using the following code:

e开发者_开发百科xport const subscribeToCategories = ({categoriesList, limit },
  callback
) => {
  try {
    return eventsRef
      .where('startDate', '>=', now)
      .where('categoryID', 'in', categoriesList)
      .orderBy('startDate', 'asc')
      .limit(limit)
      .onSnapshot(querySnapshot => {
        const newStart = querySnapshot?.docs[querySnapshot.docs.length - 1]
        const data = []
        if (querySnapshot?.size){
          querySnapshot?.forEach(doc => {
            const event = doc.data()
            data.push({ ...event, id: doc.id })
          })
        }
        callback({ eventsData: data, newStart })  
      })
    } catch (err) {
      console.log("Could not subscribe: ", err)
    }
}

The function is called on the home screen through useEffect:

  useEffect(() => {
    if (categoriesList.length === 0 || !limit || !categoriesLoaded) {
      return
    }
    categoriesUnsubscribe.current = eventsAPI.subscribeToCategories( {categoriesList, limit}, onEventsUpdate)

    return () => {
      categoriesUnsubscribe?.current && categoriesUnsubscribe?.current()
    }
  }, [categoriesList, limit, categoriesLoaded])

I've confirmed that if I comment out the line of code in the subscribe function with .where('categoryID', 'in', categoriesList), the app does not crash upon logout. I've added a condition in the if statement to make sure the function doesn't run if the list is empty, and a try/catch block and it still crashes. There are no logs. I'm really stumped.

Help is appreciated. Thanks.

** Edit to add current versions **

"@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "^1.17.11",
    "@react-native-firebase/app": "^16.4.6",
    "@react-native-firebase/auth": "^16.4.6",
    "@react-native-firebase/firestore": "^16.4.6",
    "@react-native-firebase/messaging": "^16.4.6",
    "@react-native-firebase/storage": "^16.4.6",
   "firebase-admin": "^11.0.1",
    "firebase-functions": "^3.23.0",
    "react": "18.1.0",
    "react-native": "0.70.4",