I literally wrote one. And it had been taken down due to reviewer unable to reproduce the achieve I uploaded (it turns out to be a \r\n \n line ending issue. Thanks windows and git).

I maintain one as well, and had it approved despite the source having a bug, so that doesn’t sound like much of a source.

I don't think they ever care about whether your extension has bug or not. They probably only review whether your extension has weird minified code or dependencies.

It was a bug that prevented building it. If they just look at the source code without building it, they’ll have no idea if it’s the same code at all, and it would be useless.

That's weird. Probably it depends on reviewer? Or probably the reviewer figured out how to compile your source some way? In my experience, the reproducible requirement is always forced.

See my other comment [0], manual reviews have been optional for a long time. There was quite the outcry when they stopped reviewing everything.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218820

Ok, when adding a new extension to the store. But “recommended extensions” get manually reviewed whenever they update.