Respectfully, no. The Mac App store is not interesting in this discussion; you can install any app your want on a Mac (not necessarily via the App Store, but that's fine for a number of very big businesses that ship Mac software). What we're interested in here is the iOS App Store, which is the only way to realistically install commercial software on an iPhone.

This entire discussion is about Mac apps. My account was frozen when I attempted to notarize a MacOS app. I have not (yet) tried to submit an iOS app.

Oh! That makes a lot more sense. Disregard my previous comment! ("Notarization" should have been my tip-off).

... why are you trying to sell this app via the Mac App Store in the first place?

I'm not trying to distribute through the Mac App Store. Notarization is required for MacOS apps as of several years ago, unless you bypass gatekeeper.