For everyone stuck on “but how do we even know which reviews were removed”:
The appeal process needs a list Shopify never handed us. I reconstructed my own from the Partner notification emails plus the Wayback Machine, and documented it with proof: reviews from merchants selling today, verified against Shopify’s own billing. Headline example is a merchant with 6 years of history, over $36,000 of partner earnings, and actively accruing Usage charges this morning. Review vanished.
Full case and a step-by-step method to rebuild your own list here: Destroying trust in App Store reviews - proof enclosed