You're right. Payment processors (including the App Store) should have an option to cap the amount of income a developer can earn in a month, just in case an app actually takes off (after a year of hard full-time work on it), to prevent making developers and customers who hear about it jealous.
Everybody you read about who made X dollars, planned to do so, right? It was very easy and certain, right?
Everybody you read about who made X dollars, planned to do so, right? It was very easy and certain, right?