I can see the XP days coming back where my mum asks me why her computer’s slow only to find random toolbars in Internet Explorer halfway down the screen, but in iPhone form. You can make the case that it’s anticompetitive how Apple does things but people buy into it because of how standardised and maintained it is, and that’s Apple’s competitive advantage. Forcing it to be like its competitor isn’t really pro competition. It’s just gonna get fragmented as every other developer puts in banners and links saying install our repo etc. full of crappy electron and undermaintained web apps, and people not reading it. If you want an unlocked one buy an Android. It’ll be chock full of telemetry and still because 99% of people won’t do it anyway developers will still be beholden to Apple’s clout and complain. If you wanna fix it forced Apple to lower their cut off royalties or allow in app payment links.