FYI, renewals now work correctly for me also in Xcode 15.0/iOS 17 simulator (while open), so looks like the bug with the simulator is fixed to me. I closed my feedback.

Yes, I have the same problem with an app version just built with Xcode 15.0.1. Hopefully it's a temporary problem that gets fixed quickly.

Just in case anyone else runs into this and finds this post, search results are now going to the correct tab automatically. Not sure if someone magically happened to see my post and updated anything in the Mac App Store, or if it just took a while to update. Search results started going to the right tab automatically about 2 weeks after the initial release of my app.