I agree that there is a lot of good to be done by curating apps but I don’t think Apple is doing a very good job of it in general or in specific regarding this.

I agree that there is a lot of good to be done by curating apps but I don’t think Apple is doing a very good job of it in general or in specific regarding this. There is plenty of garbage on the app store and while in this case I’m sure there are a ton of hangman games on iOS, at least this one if offering something the others aren’t. So it’s kind of failing to deliver on the stated premise for the rejection. Also this seems like a pretty bad justification to reject and app update. Nobody benefits from this as part of a curation aspect. The app will still be there, so it’s already cluttering things up if that’s the issue for the rejection. I guess what really bothers me about the App Store review process is that most of the time it feels like the human aspect is ignored despite being enforced (which I think is conceptually good). If you’re going to have people actually review everything, let the people actually act as people instead of rule-detecting machines.