> The impact of the App Store Improvement policy is nonexistent for VC-funded companies. Not true. More often than not, our iOS releases get delayed hours if n

> The impact of the App Store Improvement policy is nonexistent for VC-funded companies. Not true. More often than not, our iOS releases get delayed hours if not days, while our long-suffering iOS lead patiently walks yet another green reviewer through the policies and our previous interactions with reviewers to convince them that our app is in compliance. Among other things, our app repeatedly gets flagged for failing to comply with rules that don't apply to it. This is usually resolved with a simple message to the reviewer, but depending on the turnaround, that can effectively add a day to the time it takes to get a bug fix out. Dealing with these bogus issues probably accounts for 5% of the productive time of our iOS lead. And this is despite keeping our release cadence slow (every two weeks except for the most critical bugs) and after we've made many reasonable low-to-medium effort changes in our app to stop triggering false positives in their tools. God help us if Apple ever went the Google route. Apple reviewers might be inexperienced and undertrained, but at least they're human and capable of talking through issues.