Sometimes, waiting to hear a response isn't unreasonable, don't you think? Maybe rethink the plan to abandon Mac for the rest of your life based on the story of the minute?
The technical facts are not interpretable: Apple chose to build the new MacOS in such a way that they leaked information about every app you chose to run on your system, in plaintext, over the internet, sending it to a third party. Whether they did this out of malice or bungling, the only conclusion is that you should not trust the new MacOS with caring about your privacy.
Whatever PR spin Apple would choose to put on this is mostly irrelevant. That they chose to simply pinky swear that they wouldn't log IPs as the main defense is even worse.
To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs.
Why would they ever have logged IP addresses, if the goal is simply to verify the user-side authenticity of an app?
Still, it is no excuse for them as one would expect clear and thorough security/privacy audits before rolling out such features. Especially from companies like Apple.