It’s my prerogative the genre and scope of my own project.

If Apple contracted and paid me to make an App, then they can have the say on the genre and scope.

When my app is law abiding, without copyright infringement, and I’m paying as a customer to Apple to be able to use their App Submission service, once functional and legal according to US law, it is not up to them the content nor scope since that is my business and my marketing responsibility.

After accepting a perfectly functioning and law-abiding app, if I want to use their promotional services to feature it on their store in a more visible location, then it makes sense that the app would have to fall into the ideal marketing standards that Apple wants and could be rejected for marketing services, otherwise it is completely on my account how it’s marketed, not theirs.

Who are you standing up for with your comment? The mega corporation that wants to mandate ambiguous guidelines and implement them arbitrarily? …or the developer proficient enough to meet Apple’s technical standards with a law abiding app that wants a chance to test the market for him or herself?

I’m not expecting Apple to sell the App for me, so why does Apple have any say what it is if it’s not copyright infringement nor going against the law?

Sounds like you’re kowtowing to a mega corporation because you don’t have a face, only a generic cartoon avi! 😂