"The gate is not to QC an app, it's to prevent the app store from being a crapware and spammers paradise." Is this what your reviewer friend told you? Because

"The gate is not to QC an app, it's to prevent the app store from being a crapware and spammers paradise." Is this what your reviewer friend told you? Because part of the problem is that Apple hasn't said much if anything about just what the review process is for, so everyone is left to speculate while having to decipher arbitrary and vague rejection reasons.