Paul Kafasis with a single-sentence blog post that says everything about Apple removing ICEBlock from the App Store:

"Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments." https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/