Here is what I fundamentally don’t understand. You have one guy make an unfounded, yet emotionally strong claims (every developer hates the appstore) and now his word in written in stone.
To refute him, you need multiple people to show that he’s wrong, a written statement from Apple and consignment from the Queen of England. This seems broken
Yes, downvotes are unexplained, and we're reduced to mind-reading, but what I reckon is that the following would have done much better:
"Apple takes back from the developer exactly what they gave the developer. This has been verified by a number of people"
.. especially with a link to said verification and the bona fides of the verifiers.
The gold standard would be a link to a statement by Apple. Of course, simply being said by an official source doesn't make it true either!