> it sounds like you were sharing one Apple Developer account between multiple developers which is also against their T's & C's

Whether the case or not here (I don't know), taking a look at the big picture: Imagine if in the 90s Apple could come in to a software company and dictate what development practices and account management they must do to ship software for a Mac! Would've been instant outrage. Anyone was free to write and ship software however they liked. How low we have fallen to allow near-monopolies to dictate terms.