It's a lot more disruptive, and psychologically much more annoying, to lose something, than to never have it at all.
I do think it's a shame that Apple controls the App Store so tightly -- it's not just NSFW stuff that's banned, it's all kinds of stuff for all sorts of reasons, e.g.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/30/apple-blo...
If the web were invented today, it'd be strangled in the crib, since Apple would never approve the browser app.