General purpose computing doesn't mean tolerating multimillion USD scams even after numerous complaints. Apple has created an aura that it's App Store is trustworthy. One person was enough to blow that out of the water. Also he didn't even have to do something brilliant/hard to find out these scams.
Edit: Submitting this link to HN seems to redirect to another submission (of the same link) from 6 days ago that has a grand slam of 6 comments. Why can't it be resubmitted?
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-...