As a user, I wouldn’t want Google to continue to distribute an app that doesn’t fulfill all their privacy requirements. As a developer, it’s mildly annoying to

As a user, I wouldn’t want Google to continue to distribute an app that doesn’t fulfill all their privacy requirements. As a developer, it’s mildly annoying to have to resubmit. But it’s not exactly the end of the world, is it? I’m reasonably certain the app stores as middlemen have made life easier for small developers by several orders of magnitude. And part of the reason is that customers trust them. Being rather strict, including measures that may seem harsh to you, the developer, who knows you are a decent person, is probably unavoidable to keep the customers’ trust.