EDIT: You can downvote me all you like, but you need to deal with the fact that the end user's experience is more important than a bunch of devs who think they are entitled to be free riders on an App Store that is most certainly not free to develop or maintain.
Software should have a fair upfront price. It's not complicated.
The end user is completely toxic as a result of the App Store. I cannot buy books in Amazon's app, because Apple think they are entitled to rent seek on it. We've ended up in a word of crappy gambling simulators instead of sensibly priced paid software because Apple engineered the store that way.
The App Store is horrible for me, as a user.
One of the reasons why I enthusiastically continue to choose the Apple platform is that Apple has standards and gives an actual damn about the end user and having actual platform-wide standards and conventions instead of letting devs do whatever the hell they feel like à la Windows or Android.
Otherwise we would end up with something along the lines of the growing Electron cancer that macOS is affected by.