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The current Apple App Store process for developers is burdensome. iOS updates frequently break apps, requiring annual recompilation with certificates, and demanding constant re-uploading for new privacy policies. Developers face significant 'busy work' and risk app removal if not responsive to Apple's arbitrary demands, in addition to the 30% tax on sales. This creates an environment where Apple treats developers 'like slaves'. There is a need for features or policy changes to streamline these processes and reduce developer burden.
The most fun thing about making mobile apps is spending lots of time getting it working, finally getting it on the store, then a random ios update in the middle of night breaks everything, so it goes off the store for incompatibility, so everything comes to a crashing halt until its fixed and reuploaded. Then, every year, needing to recompile ipa files with apples certificates that proved you paid them money every year, then reuploading all over again to get back on the store. Then getting random emails that you need to draft new privacy policies based on things that don't involve you at all and reuploading the app with the new policy. And if you don't respond quickly enough to apple who randomly decides these things on a whim, your app gets taken off the store again. Apple basically treats developers like slaves, then taxes them an additional 30% of every sale, on top of all the extra busy work they require just to stay up.