UITableView Parallax Header flickers when reloadRowsAtIndexPath on iOS +11.0 - ios

I have tableView: UITableView object with a parallax header. Initially, the header height is 3/4 of the screen height.
If the tableView is scrolled to a little bit to top and tried to reloadRowsAtIndexPath, you will clearly notice a flickering happens.
The flickering occurs only on iOS +11.0 devices. However, if you assigned an arbitrary value to estimatedRowHeight that is too high, the tableView won't flicker, and vice-versa.
Since the UITableView had a lot of changes in iOS 11.0, I might be missing something.
I have initialized a repo with a sample project for the issue, you can test on iOS +9.0.
Example GIF:
Note: I have tried too many approaches for the parallax header, the issue always happens.

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