Manual reviews are useful if and only if reviewers are well trained, understand what is good and what is wrong, and do care about what they are doing.
There is a ton of anecdotes from iOS/iPadOS devs in the tweet thread that prove that some reviewers don't care at all about what they are doing: apps have been rejected for bad reasons, apps have been rejected except that the rejection screenshots were for... another apps(!!), and sometimes rejected for absolutely no reason.
It is a shame to see Apple that see devs as evil people, until they prove they may be angels... however, devs money smells like the other for Apple.
There is a ton of anecdotes from iOS/iPadOS devs in the tweet thread that prove that some reviewers don't care at all about what they are doing: apps have been rejected for bad reasons, apps have been rejected except that the rejection screenshots were for... another apps(!!), and sometimes rejected for absolutely no reason.
It is a shame to see Apple that see devs as evil people, until they prove they may be angels... however, devs money smells like the other for Apple.