[latexr]

> As to the point of whether review matters, can you imagine the dreck the store would be filled with without review?

Anecdotally—and this has been true for multiple years—none of the apps I use were discovered via the App Store, I always found them somewhere else. The App Store is already filled with garbage, and searching is both broken[1] and can be manipulated[2].

App review seems to be useless in every single way[3], stops developers from making quick fixes, and arbitrarily stops people from installing apps they may want.

[1]: Last time I tried searching for “pinboard” (a bookmarking service), I had scroll past twenty pinball apps before reaching the first relevant app.

[2]: Apps buying the name of their competitors as search terms for themselves.

[3]: Cant’t even stop malware: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...