[notrealyme123]

As an app developer you are forced to use this. "Offer" is a way to generous word

[charcircuit]

You aren't forced to add links to external content in your app. It was already prohibited, so it's not like you have to do extra work in removing them.

[DangitBobby]

Making the process exhorbitantly difficult and expensive is obviously intended to make sure people choose Google's preferred path. It's a bog standard monopoly play.