It's curious to see so many saying that these developers owe Apple x amount, but only a couple acknowledging that a steady stream of people developing apps for

It's curious to see so many saying that these developers owe Apple x amount, but only a couple acknowledging that a steady stream of people developing apps for their locked-in platform is one of the only things keeping them relevant for anything beyond the most basic use-cases. I'm not an Apple guy nor an Apple developer (and hope to never be one), so I don't have an immediate skin in this race, but this kind of behavior just seems unhealthy overall, and reads as biting (one of) the hand(s) that feed(s) you. For instance, people developing games mainly for windows is the only reason I'm not running a full Linux box right now (maybe some day, c'mon proton...). If MS made releasing on windows hostile enough to make a non-trivial number of people consider releasing titles linux-only, I would abandon it in a heart-beat.