[Spivak]

> Not a single developer asked why and how did it happen in the first place.

A human reviewer applied the app store policies as best she understood them but in the end was mistaken and the decision was reversed.

Review systems like this are better when they optimize for false positives rather than false negatives because of the fence leaning problem. If you give publishers the the benefit of the doubt then the result is people cozying right up to the fence of allowable behavior or leaning juuuust over it but not enough to trigger a ban. However, if you throw down the banhammer on everyone near the fence regardless of what side they're on people will actually say clear of it.