Their review process is historically flawed.

And where did you heard iOS is free from viruses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

From the top of my head there's also AdThief and AceDeceiver.

Not only that but App store is full of Anti-virus offerings.

If you don't want viruses, don't use non-App Store apps? Why is this not an option?

And let's not pretend that IOS hasn't been jailbroken for 15 years and there aren't already spy/malware apps.

I think you are missing the point that they want to impose this reviewing process on the off-brand App Store too

The regulation allows for apple to still do malware scanning and blocking on apps installed even by third party stores. Google also does the same thing, this point is a nothingburger. The human review part of the app store review does nothing to catch viruses.

> Google does the same thing

They don't block, and you can disable scanning fully.

> choose iOS because it’s free of viruses and malware

It's not.