While other comments see this as petty. I see it as justified, big tech knows no limit. Independent app developers are making less and less
At the end of the day you've made your choice. You believe the reason Apple does this is to protect your privacy. You can't see that they want to close you in and make sure they are the only contact you ever have with anyone. This is to get your $. You're in fact paying a premium because they artificially inflate the price of every software you buy (think fees)
I don't "harvest" (fancy word) emails for anything other than basic password recovery, but just so you know, spam filters are pretty good these days
You don’t see that I want to only have to deal with one party. I don’t want 74637728 different logins if I can help it.
I want to not be forced by Apple to add things to my app. I want to add them willingly
You can keep trumpeting this, but as long as Sign in With Apple still works for password recovery (it does), then this is a straw man.
I don’t know you personally. Maybe you had a bad day, maybe you were still pissed about Google removing your app (wonder what that was about), maybe you just really love email addresses.
I don’t know why you did this, but your choice to punish apple users, to mislead them with that pop-up (it implies that it can’t be done, not that you chose not to implement 5 lines of code for personal reasons), and then chose to write a completely tone-deaf blog post about it, all tell me you are likely one of those devs I can’t trust. So I won’t.
I don’t care how upset you are with Fruit Co., you don’t take it out on Fruit Co.’s users. Who does one think one is, Epic?