They don’t know that, actually, because I haven’t decided I’ll stay in the App Store.

-Wil

Other prominent indie devs have left the App Store: Panic, Bare Bones, Rogue Amoeba. It didn't change the system, and some of them even came back (with special favors from Apple).

Perhaps leaving is a (temporary) solution for Wil Shipley, but I would agree with the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23505370 "The only way we effect change is by ORGANIZING. Right now, Apple can do whatever they want because they pick us off one by one, and ignore us."

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. - Ben Franklin

See, my thinking is if enough of us get “special favors” then the special favors will become the norm.