Agree with most things you said, however history has shown us that reaching any sort of compromise is going to end in disaster as they will demand more concessions. Guarantee the next "request" will be to implement censorship tools to filter out "hateful" content and we will be back at square one like we are now with Damus booted off Apple. Sad to say I don't see a way Will and Apple are going to come to a workable solution as Will is playing in Apples sandbox/prison and they have all the cards
In my opinion nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s should consider some of the solutions point forth by the community so he can pivot Damus to be not so reliant on an app store committee and he will be able to sleep well at night because he didn't compromise on his convictions and ideals of what he wants the grand vision of the Damus client to be.