All the new requirements and policies may be a good thing from the user perspective. An app will not be able to drain information, battery, do something sneaky and more, and will be (hopefully) better looking and feeling like modern app.
The bad part is for us - developers. I've experienced several new requirements - for permissions, for background services, several design (no-recommendation, action bar, fragment, material) and code recommendations (Activity, Fragment, Architecture Components, support libraries, to Kotlin migration, etc).
It's a Don Quixote battle, until you have enough about it.
All the new requirements and policies may be a good thing from the user perspective. An app will not be able to drain information, battery, do something sneaky and more, and will be (hopefully) better looking and feeling like modern app.
The bad part is for us - developers. I've experienced several new requirements - for permissions, for background services, several design (no-recommendation, action bar, fragment, material) and code recommendations (Activity, Fragment, Architecture Components, support libraries, to Kotlin migration, etc).
It's a Don Quixote battle, until you have enough about it.
I agree.
The level of risk for the developer is too high though. You can easily omit or misinterpret some part of a rule and get banned forever.