Swift Playground is listed in the App Store... So no, Apple apps listed in the App Store must follow their rules.
I checked quickly in the guide and no mention of "Me, Apple, can do whatever I want in my store."
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Apple doesn’t need to say in the rules that they can do what they want, because they are the ones enforcing the rules. They can exempt anyone, including themselves, from the rules for any reason including no reason, without having to say anything about that in the rules. Human rules are not computer code, and also not mathematical. Human rules can be interpreted, bent and ignored. Sometimes at great risk, sometimes at no risk.
They don't, though, at least not in this case. There are special exemptions for educational programming software in the App Store, that covers Swift Playgrounds, but also others wanting to create similar things.
Here is an exercise, when a police patrol car gets parked in 2nd lane, and the officier happens to buying some stuff on a nearby shop, go there and tell them nicely that 2nd lane parking is against the traffic laws and they should fine themselves.
Broken analogy? Apple is the police of Apple store.
Broken (and terrible) analogy as police does not have the right to do that...
I don't know what you wanted to demonstrate but, sorry, you failed :/
They don't? Good luck teeling them that.