If there's no legitimate security issue from an App that's not updated recently, it just feels like a major slap in the face to a developer to have their hard w

If there's no legitimate security issue from an App that's not updated recently, it just feels like a major slap in the face to a developer to have their hard work supporting a platform to be removed from a store. This is especially galling when it comes to small Indie shops with limited resources that don't have a team of a dozen spare developers to just throw at a completed App to figure out the build process they last touched a long time ago, try and add a new feature or two to justify a new release, QA it, and redeploy. This is assuming that everything goes smoothly and there's no problem rebuilding the App and you don't get some crazy error you need to spend days trying to fix. To me, the real core issue probably is that search and discovery on these App stores is just awful and some manager somewhere thinks that a strategy to just delete a large pile of old Apps from the store is the easiest way to improve their own shoddy search results. I'd say just work on the Algorithm. Give a boost in search ranking to Apps that use the newest APIs. Rank Apps that aren't updated within X months lower in search rankings. Use the carrot, not the stick: give developers a positive incentive to keep their Apps updated with the latest technologies.