Apple's certificate and provisioning profile shite can fuck right off

I almost made the decision to specialise in iOS a few years back, this is one of the things that stopped me.

Pay to release, pay to inapp transaction, pay for mac, pay 100$ for getting development SDK, pay pay pay pay XD

And this is why iOS developer must get high pay.

You should have tried this shit 8 years ago. Good luck with figuring out where the problem is. I always had a day planned for submission as getting it to work first time was like winning the lottery. It has improved a lot since, but l can relate to you pain.

In the end there was a checkbox in the project to self sign. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♀️
Thankfully I know a guy...