It doesn't matter what Apple plans, it's been more than a decade. They've made reviews faster and rejections more arbitrary. Resubmissions with 0 changes can lead to approvals. Useful apps are rejected because they don't meet a particular reviewer's standards on a particular day of the week. It's only become more inconsistent.

> It's not as simple to do when there are probably hundreds of these clones flooding the store and the review process within the span of a few days.

That's kinda the point. It's impossible to actually "curate" a store with millions of offerings. Apple should walk the walk and not just talk, and reduce the App Store to a few hundred apps that could conceivably be thoroughly reviewed by trained humans, or be honest and accept that their rules will always be inconsistently applied at current scale.