If you've been following the Epic v. Apple case, you'd know some folks like Tim Cook strongly believe the answer is no, or in his words "they shouldn't have to [decide]."
The freedom-less future sure seems pretty bleak.
We don't all have time to sit around evaluating 1,000 similar packages, compiling and debugging them from scratch, just to get a simple app or game working.
The bleeding edge will keep on bleeding, but for the rest of us, good enough is good enough. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to work well enough and not add to our already-overwhelmed mental loads.
Suppose Facebook decided to move to a different third party store on iOS, maybe their own store, so they don’t have to list their data access and sharing policies, don’t have to go through app store review, etc.
Doing that forces me to choose between rigorous app review and disclosure, and using the Facebook app. I don’t want to be put in that position. One of the reasons I use an iPhone is because of that.
How is that any better that being responsible for making the choice in the first place?