Why? Isn't managing an app's life cycle important anymore?

Apple emailed me about an app I released 3 years ago. It was not updated in 3 years so they said they were cleaning house would reject if I don't release. So, I prepared a release and when I archived and tried to distribute and I ran into Error Fetching App Record. "App record with bundle identifier "com...." was previously removed from App Store. But, it wasn't. Sounds like a bug to me. Calling them now.

I too am having this problem for the last 3 months even with Version xcode 13.4.1