Does Windows use an app store these days? They might have one, but my experience is largely I'm still downloading EXE files from a /download page somewhere. But

Does Windows use an app store these days? They might have one, but my experience is largely I'm still downloading EXE files from a /download page somewhere. But I only use for my work so not installing much. I still feel like the app store on OSX is meh. I download DMG files 99% of the time from a /download page somewhere. Seems to work fine, what am I missing? You're making it sound like app stores have fixed something but I'm failing to see what. Maybe on iOS it gives some exposure/discoverability to new apps. But I don't see that as an overwhelming feature for end users. This used to exist outside of app stores as web based directories and that worked better in my opinion.