A lot of people here are fixating on the $100/year fee -- and don't get me wrong, that's a problem -- but ignoring another significant part of the blog post: the fact that Apple is demanding what amounts to a non-trivial amount of creative control over the visual appearance of games that can be distributed on macOS/iOS. Just like the other restrictions on user freedom, this is a ratchet that will only get tighter as time goes on.
What would happen to indie filmmaking if every TV and movie projector threw up a scary warning screen, requiring a cumbersome manual override, before playing anything that wasn't certified by the MPAA?
If you develop webapps, would you be OK with not being able to get a trusted SSL certificate unless an anonymous reviewer at Mozilla was satisfied with your UI?
What would happen to indie filmmaking if every TV and movie projector threw up a scary warning screen, requiring a cumbersome manual override, before playing anything that wasn't certified by the MPAA?
If you develop webapps, would you be OK with not being able to get a trusted SSL certificate unless an anonymous reviewer at Mozilla was satisfied with your UI?