Suppose for the sake of argument that every review in the App Store for every app was like the one in the screenshot, a complaint about ratings requests. How would that be helpful? How would anyone know whether, aside from the ratings requests, the apps were any good or not? How would those be good reviews? You might defend the reviews as accurate and justified, but they would still be largely useless, because they're so narrowly focused.
I'm happy to receive 5 star reviews for my apps, but honestly, some of those are poorly written too, overly vague, or too narrowly focused, occasionally inaccurate, claiming my app does something it doesn't actually do!
The underlying point, though, is that Apple is relying on user reviews as a poor substitute to cover up its own shortcomings in reviewing app submissions. If an app doesn't do what it says, or it's user-hostile in some ways, how are those apps even getting through to the store in the first place?
Adding requirements for apps to remain on the App Store is fully reasonable, and keens the ecosystem usable for users.
Are you in favor of Apple removing everyone from the App Store?
> Adding requirements for apps to remain on the App Store is fully reasonable, and keens the ecosystem usable for users.
Apple created a developer API to request ratings and reviews. Apple 100% approves of and encourages the practice. Indeed, Apple's own apps in the App Store request ratings and reviews.
You make the assumption that it's not in everyone's best economic interest to follow the rules. People will change before they are all removed.
> Apple created a developer API to request ratings and reviews. Apple 100% approves of and encourages the practice. Indeed, Apple's own apps in the App Store request ratings and reviews.
And they added various limitations to this API to prevent bad actors, which clearly is being worked around by enough apps that it makes sense to enforce this more.