As someone that used to work on the Play Store team many many moons ago... a lot of that was outsourced to overseas which resulted in much slower response time. Here stateside we had a lot of metrics in place to fast response. Typically your app would get reviewed the same day. Not sure what it's like now but the managers were incompetent back then even so.
> the managers were incompetent back then even so.
This. So. Much. This.
We go round and round about specific policies at corporate or civic levels. We hash it all out and pat ourselves on the back that we’ve at least proposed how whatever the issue of the moment might be improved.
But we never come to the basic generic issue. That large swaths of decision makers should not make the decisions they do.
My experience has been that the Play Store does have relatively quick review times (usually under a day). But the feedback given upon rejections is often so poor that it doesn't help much. As it can often take several trial and error submissions to resolve the issue.
Only for app updates in my experience. Publishing new apps takes ~7 days for years now. If I remember right, it started with Covid but it never improved.
