None of this is what happened. Here's what actually happened. Developer develops a tweak requiring a jailbreak. It becomes one of the most popular jailbreak t

None of this is what happened. Here's what actually happened. Developer develops a tweak requiring a jailbreak. It becomes one of the most popular jailbreak tweaks available. Five years pass, Apple inadvertently allows sideloading by giving anyone who wants one a dev certificate. Developers utilize this to create a version of their tweak that can live inside the sandbox & can be signed by end users, but still utilizes private APIs. They develop this and release it, knowing full well that they're doing an end-run around Apple's policies, very similar to requiring a jailbreak. They did not develop it expecting it to be approved. I have no clue where you got that from. The only confusing part is when they caved because Apple complained, knowing full well they would complain at some point.