As a user, I'm glad Apple did that.
As a developer, the one thing that I do dislike about Apple, is the dismal state of their documentation on how to actually take advantage of all their platforms' features. I have to begrudgingly admit that their nemesis Microsoft has always been way ahead in that department.
> After releasing the Catalina Golden Master build to developers on October the 3rd, we immediately finished fixing any new crash and issue we could find over the weekend. In our opinion, leaving developer just four (4!) days over a weekend with a public release on October the 7th is not very professional. While we still updated our applications in time, Apple did not review them for the AppStore, and instead rejected them first for a crash (sigh!), [...]
Leaving such a small window between Apple getting its act together with the GM, and a hard deadline for third parties to get their act together, is rough.
That's exactly what the article and the quote above says there was:
> we immediately finished fixing any new crash or issue we could find over the weekend
NEW crashes or issues. In the GM. In four days.
> and later for requiring UI changes, including showing a Save As panel for each generated file.
So, Apple found a crash, and instead of completing the review (this assumes they could have, and benefit of the doubt here, they could have), they didn't. They found and issue, flagged it, and sent it back. This means the developer had to do work, resubmit, and then have another issue found. Rather than work through everything, the reviewer found one thing, dinged the app, and moved on.
As a user, that means Apple is delaying apps longer than need be. Sure, fixing the crash is good, but I can't imagine they couldn't have reviewed the other parts of the app and said, "Fix the crash and this other two areas and you are good to go." That would mean a shorter turn around time, and as a user, I get a better product sooner.
Yeah, the crash could have prevented them from completing the review.
> As a user, that means Apple is delaying apps longer than need be.
Meanwhile, according to another outrage, Apple is •not delaying releases enough* and rushing out buggy apps and operating systems.
At least in this case.