I dislike App Stores and not because of fees. I feel they have made the discovery of good software harder, and reduced the average quality and safety of softwar

I dislike App Stores and not because of fees. I feel they have made the discovery of good software harder, and reduced the average quality and safety of software that is available, the exact opposite of what they claim is the benefit of an app store. Having the single portal where you search for things, leads to immense gaming of the system by bad actors. You search for "Chess game" and the good ones are not to be found. Instead you get 100 ad infested, crap. It is a race to the bottom. Everything ends up "free' with ads or dlc or privacy invasion tactics to make money.