While this case is just unfortunate contrasted with the absolutely ridiculous podcast app story, the general censoring issue is making its way through the international press. There will probably be some updates to the policy.
I agree with you, thanks to the Podcast Addict case more people will know about google practices.
It took very popular app to make it to the mainstream news and i hope the change will be for the better and maybe small developers will also be heard in this discussion.