I suppose the issue here is that Apple sees apps and games as abstract consumer goods, like toys or kitchen gadgets. In which context, they might see dropping these war sim games as no different from, say, Etsy dropping confederate flag t-shirts. After all, why should anyone want an app with the objectionable images? There are dozens of others without them; surely they'll do instead.

Of course if one considers games to be media content analogous to books or movies (or dare I say it, Art), such a view seems insane. Then again, one doesn't normally hear about curated gardens erring on the side of free expression, so maybe it's exactly what we should expect.