I would add to this that there is no way for developers to actually know what their sales are without depending on Apple APIs, there is no way to even communica

I would add to this that there is no way for developers to actually know what their sales are without depending on Apple APIs, there is no way to even communicate with customers without Apple APIs, etc. Furthermore, Apple forces you to take out a short-term loan with them because they won’t pay you until some threshold is met every month or so (great, let me tell my web host to not charge fees this month). Sometimes they will not show you any numbers at all, even for history that you know is nonzero, if your app falls below threshold for awhile. And these are completely unnecessary Apple dependencies.