@adamconover Having lived through this battle in a past life, I think it went down like…
Some high ranking figure at Apple gave the manager in charge of Pages flack because their average review score was low.
In reality, the review system is broken. Tons of users write reviews to get tech support, which make them overwhelmingly negative. So every large app games the review system to compensate.
But the Pages manager can't control the App Store, so he rolls with it and adds an annoying prompt.