The problem is that an inherent imbalance in scale means you have no effective or proportionate recourse when Google break this law. This legislation requires meaningful human interaction with developers, but as many in this thread have observed, developers can't access a human, only automated processes.
That would be costly for Google and wouldn't easily scale, so clearly they don't choose to follow this law. Trouble is that laws are meaningless without enforcement, and someone to advance that enforcement on behalf of the smaller party.
The developer in question is based in Europe.
The problem is that an inherent imbalance in scale means you have no effective or proportionate recourse when Google break this law. This legislation requires meaningful human interaction with developers, but as many in this thread have observed, developers can't access a human, only automated processes.
That would be costly for Google and wouldn't easily scale, so clearly they don't choose to follow this law. Trouble is that laws are meaningless without enforcement, and someone to advance that enforcement on behalf of the smaller party.