From what I understand this is fairly normal even streaming services do it.
This is nothing like streaming. Apple can't sabotage rights people have under the DMA, simply because they're temporarily outside the EU for work, vacation, whatever. It's also just plain stupid, because what if there are important or critical updates? And of course it doesn't apply to the App Store, which is yet another way they're blatantly self-preferencing (which is forbidden). In addition to this being self-preferencing:
"The gatekeeper shall not engage in any behaviour that undermines effective compliance with the obligations of Articles 5, 6 and 7 regardless of whether that behaviour is of a contractual, commercial or technical nature, or of any other nature, or consists in the use of behavioural techniques or interface design."
"The gatekeeper shall not degrade the conditions or quality of any of the core platform services provided to business users or end users who avail themselves of the rights or choices laid down in Articles 5, 6 and 7, or make the exercise of those rights or choices unduly difficult, including by offering choices to the end-user in a non-neutral manner, or by subverting end users’ or business users' autonomy, decision-making, or free choice via the structure, design, function or manner of operation of a user interface or a part thereof."