interop.Reference() issues

I'm in the process of updating a copy of 'nativescript-zeroconf' plugin for NS7, and long story short, i can't acquire IP addresses. After some digging around, i found that this line was the root of my issues:

let socket_address = new interop.Reference(sockaddr_in, socketData.bytes).value;
console.log(socket_address); // <Pointer: 0x6000033c8350>

This line of code used to work in NS6 with the old runtime, but now it just seems to return the pointer without been able to access any properties of the pointer.

eg, this used to work in NS6 returned 2 (AF_INET), but now returns undefined:

console.log(socket_address.sin_family) // undefined

Start by reproducing the interop.Reference(sockaddr_in, socketData.bytes) example from the issue and inspect how the returned Pointer is exposed. No repository file or test is named; done means the sockaddr_in fields, including sin_family, are accessible in the NS7 runtime and the reported IP-address use case works.