Alexey Pazhitnov owns 50% of the Tetris holding, so he is a business and will act in the interests of the business. Even if he wanted to, he would not be able to violate the arrangements secured by big money, this would mean big losses for him.
In fact, other such games are also removed from Google Play, some of them solve the problem by reloading, but this is an endless process. We achieved pretty good positions in search results and this coincided with the moment the publisher changed from Electronic Arts to NT3work. This gave us a lot of traffic and the opportunity to significantly compete with the official game, which apparently they did not like much.
To save the game in such conditions, we need to create a distribution model independent of the stores and solve a number of problems. Also now a lot depends on the players themselves, who can invite friends. After all, the more players, the greater the chance of the game surviving.
Anyway, thanks for your support and have a good game! =)