Hate away, but in this case I'm on Apple's side here. The author may be the exception where no updates are actually needed, but that does seem to be the exception. In my experience, most iOS apps I've tried downloading that were last updated 2-3 years ago simply don't work.

Apple requires an update in the past 3 years or else a minimum threshold of downloads. Presumably the latter is required so there are simply enough newer reviews to indicate whether it's broken (lots of 1-star) or not. These seem like pretty reasonable indicators that it's still working.

> My old code simply did not work anymore with the latest versions of Xcode. So I had to spend four hours on Saturday upgrading all my platform libraries simply so that I could compile the damn app.

Honestly that's just good hygiene. Because if they waited another 2 years, it might have taken 4 days to get the thing working. New versions of libraries come with all sorts of improvements, whether it's for accessibility or security or a hundred other things.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that if you're maintaining software in a public app store, you should be able to compile it semi-regularly with new versions of packages.