How frustrating. I wonder how common it is for devs to dump significant effort into an iOS app / passion project only to be told "No" by the App Store review pr

How frustrating. I wonder how common it is for devs to dump significant effort into an iOS app / passion project only to be told "No" by the App Store review process. Is there any way around this? The prospect of building a functional piece of software that cannot be deployed is kind of tragic :/