It's Apple, being hostile towards developers is their whole thing.
Yeah you’re supposed to praise them for it because they have laptops with aluminum shells or whatever.
As someone who has done quite a bit of development for the various apple platforms since ~system 7... what the hell are you talking about?
Compared to windows the documentation is better and clearer, the apis are generally clearer and the sdks are better put together.
That said I hardly interact with the app store, but when I have it's been.. fine.
Beats the hell out of the microsoft ecosystem.
Apple does prioritise their users even above their developers, fair enough.