1200 "compromised" apps in appstore for more than 6 months (I can't find when 5.5.1 of the sdk was released, it was before 3 March), and you really want to spin this as a "success" of the enlightened-dictator model...?
It's astonishing in this day and age to see people like you who still think it statistically appropriate to toss out absolute numbers for comparative systems. As I wrote the expectation is not perfection but improving the economic balance, since all general security is an economic game. That 1200 number is utterly meaningless by itself, the comparison is what the numbers would be, what the compromise can accomplish on the system, and for how long, without any of these measures in place. A major goal of iOS is to allow the general population to go browse around and install absolutely anything they like the look of with minimal concern for what it might do. And it's a good goal, sacrilegious as it's proved to be amongst techies, even if unfortunately (though unsurprisingly) Apple has brought along unnecessary baggage with it. We should and could have done better first and preempted it, but collectively could not be bothered (or even outright mocked victims).
I'm not going to bother with rhetorical questions about the state of such things on Windows, macOS, Linux or whatever because we all damn well know the answer.
Ah yes, "think of the children", that marvel of rhetorical tools. You deny others their freedom, but it's "for the greater good". That always ends up so well.
The "state of such things" on other platforms, as dangerous as it might look to your paternalistic worldview, is what enabled the PC revolution in the first place. Had Microsoft or IBM enacted policies as draconian and illiberal as Apple is doing now, we likely wouldn't be talking on a free tcp connection using free browsers, right now. It's not by denying people their freedom that you reach progress and stability, but by educating them to make better choices for themselves.
But sure, spin it round and round. You and Apple are doing your best to keep back progress, but it's not going to last.
I'm not going to bother with rhetorical questions about the state of such things on Windows, macOS, Linux or whatever because we all damn well know the answer.