They don’t make a shitload off the small apps like the synthesizer from this post. They aren’t going to introduce more expensive Cupertino and Cork reviewers to help that category of dev. They’re a business and will automate instead of have small time earners occupy more time on reviewer desks.

"They're a business so they'll continue pinching pennies and creating bad will" is not a well-constructed take.

Apple make a shitload of money from the app store in general, including app developer subscriptions.

The review process is already semi-automated, and hiring a few hundred human reviewers of all kinds would be a cash flow rounding error.

You still have to pay them $100 a year to even submit so it’s not like the devs are asking for free labor