Where can I complain about Google Store target API level limits

Recently, Google announced that they will begin to restrict the publication of Android applications that are not intended for recent versions of the API level. I support this change, but I need some special exceptions for the case, and I have not found a suitable forum to request them. I know this is not true, but I hope that someone here can tell me where to go.

I am publishing an application that has been absent for a long time and still has a significant number of users who run it under Gingerbread. It also uses several support libraries, and the latest versions of these libraries, targeting the latest API levels, no longer support Gingerbread devices. The end result is that I cannot build an apk that supports API level 9 if it targets an SDK level in excess of 23. Which will not be accepted in November.

I had a plan to solve this problem. This should have started distributing two apk files for each update. One of them is aimed at the latest API level and has a minimum API, probably 21. The other will support older devices and will have a target and maximum API of 20 and a minimum API of 9. The problem is that the old AP will not be accepted in the Play Store, if I can not convince someone that they should continue to accept any application where the levels of the target and maximum API are the same.

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