> I’ll be the first to admit that my actual app is pretty much garbage
It’s working. Your low quality project you weren’t really committed to got filtered.
Aside from the low-effort snark and lack of empathy towards someone's project, this is also how you filter people out of caring about software development at at a young age, and then who's going to keep the computer systems running?
Both Google's and Apple's app stores are 99% slop by volume, so no, it's not working.
I’m not sure what you mean. My app is published. I actually jumped through the hoops because I wanted to learn how to jump through those hoops.
My project hasn’t been filtered at all. I just found the process more of a bureaucratic exercise than made sense (and the end result was that my low quality app was accepted so none of this is done in the name of quality).