A related change is what has bugged me a lot about having control over the apps (and app versions) on our devices. Ever since Apple removed syncing apps with a

A related change is what has bugged me a lot about having control over the apps (and app versions) on our devices. Ever since Apple removed syncing apps with a computer from iOS 9 onwards, claiming that it's required for app thinning, the "cloud" is the only option for apps. And the cloud really sucks – it's quite slow even when setting up a new device where it downloads all apps again, and many a times gets the newest version which you may not want. Apple could have provided a way to store, on the computer, multiple binaries for an app depending on the device architectures used by that user and have iTunes sync the correct binary, but decided not to. Then Apple completely removed the App Store part from iTunes.