I would say it's pretty unrelated. There have been a slew of high-profile App Store "altercations" over the past weeks/months, and Apple is an ongoing concern

I would say it's pretty unrelated. There have been a slew of high-profile App Store "altercations" over the past weeks/months, and Apple is an ongoing concern with it's own roadmaps and release schedules; who already announced policy changes were coming WWDC2020. If this announcement was a month ago ppl might think it was Hey.com related, for example.