Comment by iggldiggl

> I assume the best reason they have for this is that they can nuke the account, effectively killing the install base of an app is reported to be malicious.

They can already target malicious apps via Play Protect, including presumably all apps signed by the same signing key, so from that point of view no change would be needed. What this is presumably supposed to achieve is rather making it harder to rotate your signing key after it has been burnt…