Richard Carroll (nprofile…kq75) grips (nprofile…p09k) It was pointed out in the Hacker News discussion that this is feudalist, his only recourse is to appeal to lords of the empire, who are either powerless about this sort of problem (both by its nature and because Apple is so notoriously siloed), or are so high up they're just don't care about individual peons.
Only advantages today are of course that's not literally true, he may get some level of recourse (this happened over a weekend), and he is getting a level of revenge by warning a lot of people.