To me this only seems to twist the arms of large companies like epic and Facebook. A small malicious app with thousands of installs can exist completely for free.
It doesn’t completely protect them, as Apple repeatedly states in the document. It simply can’t protect users as much as it could prior to the legislation, is their claim. But it helps mitigate some aspects.
What I don't understand is how the pricing methods that our parent comment called egregious offer any type of protection or mitigation. Could you elaborate?