Honestly I'd take that over the hostile vomit that is the google playstore. That thing is an offence to my senses...so many colors and animations trying to grab my attention.
While we're on their subject, Amazon customer service chat can only be done on the app, not on browser on mobile.
The future is now!
I also noticed that Google gets really offended if you turn off auto updates, and nags you hard to turn it back on.
It'll show you updates you haven't done since whatever time period I haven't figured out, but to actually check, from there you have to click 'Manage', then 'Updates available', then 'Check for updates.'
Typically, I have nothing waiting for me in updates, and have to do the above to expose 8 or so apps with updates available.
Settings, System, Software Updates, App updates
Bonus that any OS or Google services updates are here too