If the reason for the higher throughput is the flood of mostly AI-generated slop apps, does it make sense to hire and spend human time reviewing them? IMO the answer is no, because there isn't an upper limit to the number of apps that can be generated.

In 2020 they had 500 reviewers and had grown to about 2 million apps, the judge in the Epic trial called them out for not hiring enough. Today they still have 500 reviewers and about 3 million apps, so you can't exclusively blame the growth on AI slop it's a combination of they should have been hiring more reviewers all along and AI slop has exacerbated their long-standing decision not to.

They have some duty to the developers who paid them for distribution rights whether they're making AI slop, manual slop or something worthwhile, and their processes should scale appropriately.