It's the perceived hypocrisy. Apple either cares about app quality (their stated reason for barring Flash) or they don't (thus it would be fine to let the crap

It's the perceived hypocrisy. Apple either cares about app quality (their stated reason for barring Flash) or they don't (thus it would be fine to let the crapps stay) - but they want to have it both ways. That's what people are down on.