Don't forget selective enforcement, which is probably the biggest frustration and source of uncertainty and cost. Not knowing if doing one thing one day will be fine the next day are not conditions most businesses thrive in.
I'm equally ok with Apple's App Store curation.
But it's a tricky line to get right. When visiting countries with street food cultures, you can generally do ok by following the local crowd. But that's because the local establishment isn't going to screw the pooch and poison the regular clientele if they can help it.
We live in a society attempting to outsource trust, whether by government regulation, flimsy technological crowdsourced reputation or other equally ephemeral measures of quality.