You could hire 35 developers at $200K and that would still be more than the median compensation for a developer in the US
Even if you keep all that lean, you now created a giant cost center with no additional revenue.
It's an artificial financial burden imposed by Apple, and there is not even a decent argument for it.
>Apple takes EU specific actions to satisfy EU specific regulations
Is that an indecent argument? I'm probably among the last people to defend Apple, but the only problem I'm seeing here is Mozilla complaining they can't keep paying their CEO $7,000,000.00 USD if they have to hire more developers.