`apt install this` would be problematic at App Store/Play Store scale, though. I agree that search engines as an intermediary don't do enough to curb confusion,

`apt install this` would be problematic at App Store/Play Store scale, though. I agree that search engines as an intermediary don't do enough to curb confusion, but exploitation of `apt` and other "more stable" distribution channels is prevented not as much by their design superiority than by the risk/reward dynamics of their incentive structures.