[geekles]

The point of a PWA is that the app store is not needed. Why would you be trying to get a PWA into the app store?

[judah]

I answer that in the post. The short of it is, because 1) that's where users look for apps and 2) Apple greatly restricts web apps in Safari. So much so that to be first-class citizen, you need to be an app in the store.