First, I am not trusting them at face value. They are building a copycat of Serum and most likely could be doing some level of vibe-coding themselves.

Second, to your point, say we trusted them, it's a chicken or the egg problem. After all the trash entered the space it became flagged and a scale/moderation issue.

The larger problem is the bad actors.

I'm not sure why Apple needs to be policing who gets to compete for a given functionality. Malware? Yeah, for sure, police it. Non-functional software? Maybe, if it's really bad. That's more or less a scam.

But simply because you're solving the same problem others are? No, that's horrible overreach. We have copyright and patent law to deal with outright copies. It's not Apple's place.