And yet there seem to be countless stories on the web of devs struggling with the Apple App Store and not getting proper information. Your account is merely an anecdote.
As are all the other stories. I've yet to see an sort of comprehensive statistics on app store rejections. (Which would be kind of awesome.)
For the time being it's all anecdotes, and we choose to believe based on our personal histories (with apple, the media, the reliabilty of messageboards, etc)