I also really wish Apple would introduce a fee per submission. This would be by far the most effective way of reducing the crapware. Of course there would be a huge outcry and lots of developers would leave, but it would be an excellent change for both users and developers creating quality applications. Hopefully it will happen sometime in the future.
However at this point sadly Apple's marketing department seems to be in love with those huge and exponentially increasing app numbers.
As far as I see it this change of rules will achieve several of Apple's objectives at once:
1) Reduce the load on the reviewers
2) Increase visibility of new apps. This helps both developers and users. It also makes the App Store look a lot more 'fresh'. You see lots of actual new apps rather than the biweekly 'bug fix' updates of old apps. This will have users paying more attention to those 'new releases' lists again.
3) It increases the rate of new app submissions even more.
1 and 2 are good for everybody. But 3 is only good for Apple's marketing department. It will allow them to celebrate 200k apps sooner than they would have without this change.
Hopefully at some point they will stop focusing on quantity as a marketing point so much and will put more emphasis on quality.
Overall I still think this is a change for the better.
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