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I find this business decision fascinating because a good portion of their App Store revenue comes from developers. One would THINK developer relations would be a priority at Apple, but it's pretty clear that's not the case.

It was one of things that I found unbelievable when switching from Android to iOS development. The developer experience is just so much WORSE on iOS. Sometimes, it's as if Apple is actively trying to annoy developers.

They have such a strong market presence and so much power, they don't have to care for the moment because developers will come to the platform anyway.

"documentation is a huge cost center"

It's a tiny cost center, in the grand scheme of things. As it is they probably spend less than they spend cleaning the glass at Apple Park.

For API documentation, if you can specify what you intend to build well enough to build it and validate that you have built even approximately what you intended to build, documentation shouldn't be much more work.